Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Captain Horatio McKay, 86, retired Commodore of the Cunard fleet, in London. At various times he commanded 17 Cunard ships and was for ten years commander of the fleet...
...used less than one gallon of gasoline in his 15 horse-power engine. Incidentally he won a 25,000 franc prize, but that is not the point--its real significance lies in the fact that it has roused England to a realization of her danger from any hostile air-fleet in time...
With Russia planning to build a fleet of mammoth airplanes, with Germany negotiating to be allowed to increase the size and power of her force, and with France already in possession of three times as many warrior airplanes as Great Britain possesses in her whole empire, John Bull may well be excused for feeling some apprehension. He suffered some from Zeppelin raids in the great war, and now he intends to play safe. It is rather to his credit that he has not accepted a request made by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of Aerial Navigation, for the building...
...appointment of an officer who is not a graduate of the War College to be commander-in-chief of the great United States Fleet is a crime against the people of this country. . . . Appointment of an officer lacking this training to be the head of the Naval Academy at Anapolis is nothing less than a scandal. . . . More than half of the officers given preference in the transfers recently announced and to take effect this summer are not graduates of the War College. The service is disgusted with the situation, disgusted that the same old game of service politics is being...
Admiral Sims' denunciation calls attention to the fact that Admiral Robert E. Coontz, soon to become Admiral of the United States Fleet, is not a graduate of the College. Admiral Jones, retiring from that post, is. Of the 47 admirals in the Navy, 25 are War College graduates, and of the 15 newly appointed to sea duty, nine are graduates...