Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shipping?"Our Government during the War acquired a large merchant fleet, which should be transferred as soon as possible to private ownership and operation under conditions which would secure two results : first, and of prime importance, adequate means for national defense; second, adequate service to American commerce. . . . We must have a merchant marine which meets these requirements, and we shall have to pay the cost of its service...
Navy Department. Secretary Denby urged the need of $30,000,000 for modernizing the fleet, the building of eight 10,000-ton cruisers, three cruising submarines, $7,676,000 for naval bases and a five year building program for the naval air force. The modernization program includes heavier deck armor for aeroplane defense, blisters for hulls as protection from torpedoes and bombs, and the much disputed proposal to increase the elevation of naval guns...
Emergency Fleet Corporation...
Seventy-two ironclads swept past the visiting Dominion Premiers at Spithead, the roadstead off Portsmouth. It was the first Royal Naval review to be held since July, 1914. It was also said to have been " the smallest number of naval vessels mustered at a formal British Fleet review...
...review of the fleet was principally carried out for the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lieutenant Colonel Amery, an Oxford classical scholar, who has been connected with the Admiralty for more than two years, having been Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty since 1921 until he was appointed First Lord last year in Mr. Law's Administration. He was formerly on the London Times editorial staff and organ-ized The Times' war correspondence in the South African...