Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brains, and at present the supply seems to be at a particularly low ebb. General Clarence R. Edwards has asked the Military Order of the World to oppose the federal Child Labor Amendment unless it carries with it a universal conscription provision. He also urged a large air fleet, which, he said, "is one way to safety while we are busy converting the soft, mushy, pacifists...
Peru, advised by a U. S. Naval Mission at Lima, has ordered a fleet of submarines...
During the summer all the gasoline engines were overhauled and repainted, and they are now in perfect working condition; so much so, in fact, that the lowly "Pep" can now keep pace with the pride of the fleet, the "Patricia...
...James, lay 218 ships, the pride of the U. S. wooden navy, built at a cost of $235 million. The Salvage Co. has taken an option on the entire lot. Ten are to be burned. If the iron and copper salvaged from the ashes repay the effort, the whole fleet will be bought...
...British Fleet. In the manner of parlance, Sir Cecil Hurst, legal ad- viser to the Foreign Office, "dropped a naval bomb" into the Assembly, when he declared that Great Britain would accept the principle of compulsory arbitration provided that she were not brought into Court because of some act of her Navy performed in attempting to maintain or restore peace. His speech mightily pleased the French, who subsequently agreed unconditionally to the principle of arbitration in international disputes...