Word: item
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is, a total of 43 cruisers. The U. S. Navy already has 18 cruisers. The first item on the Navy's shopping list was therefore 25 cruisers.* The other proposed additions were: 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, 5 aircraft carriers. Calculations for these added auxiliaries were evolved on the 18-battleship scale and also with the idea of properly equipping the two outer zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging...
...Item: One mystery house in London...
...Item: One faithful, if comic, Chinese servant...
...Senators: ¶Amended and passed the House's bill appropriating some 540 millions to maintain independent executive branches of the government, such as the Bureau of Efficiency, the Civil Service Commission, the Smithsonian Institution. President Coolidge's salary ($75,000 per annum) was an item...
...edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo Specials in Bedroom Suites," "White Elephant Kitchen Cabinets," "White Elephant...