Word: guantanamo
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Miss Anderson was tried first. Six officers in white uniforms with decorations and sabres constituted the austere court. Lieutenant Gordon of the Marine Corps was prosecutor. Lieutenant Horan of the Marine Corps was counsel for the defense. Miss Anderson testified that, at Guantanamo, she received a package as a gift from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder...
...special conditions; it must be close to land so that accurate measurements of speed can be made; it must have very deep water, so that the efficiency of the propellers will not be impaired. The United States Navy has two such courses: one off Rockland, Me., the other in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Rockland course is too foggy at this season of the year...
...islands were bought chiefly so that Germany might not obtain a naval base in the Caribbean. Now the question is: What shall we do with them? St. Thomas has a good port for a naval station but will not be used by the Navy because Guantanamo Bay is superior. St. Croix is suitable for agriculture, but has had almost no rain for three years; so its sugarcane industry is practically ruined. The drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle...
...longer than her former length of 907.6 feet. The Leviathan will soon leave Newport News, where she is being reconditioned and go to Boston for dry-docking and taking aboard tons of steward's supplies, bedding, dishes, furniture, etc. There will follow in June a trial trip to Guantanamo to test her new oil engines and train her personnel...
...will be made under the glare of searchlights and beneath the Caribbean moon. Two scout fleets of fast cruisers and destroyers will contest each other under cover of smoke screens and protecting airplanes. At the end of the month force-practice and depth-charge practice will be held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Later, in April, the United States fleet will divide and race to home bases...