Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to a note from the Chinese Government (TIME, Jan. 7), the Ministers of the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium addressed a joint note to the Chinese Foreign Office, stating that China must pay the Boxer Indemnity* in the currency of the country concerned and upon a standard gold basis...
...national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere, soon receiving the name of bubbles", such as a project to carry on a whale fishing trade, by name the Grand Fishery of Great Britain; one for a perpetual motion machine, capital one million; and finally, "one for undertaking a great advantage, but nobody...
...executive in practical operations. It is his business to control the operations of the fleet, prepare its plans for war. He is ex-officio Chairman of the General Board and ranking member for the Navy (coordinate with the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pershing) on the Joint Board. To his desk will come the report of the umpires of the recent sham war at Panama (TIME, Jan. 28) in which the Pacific Fleet and the Panama Canal were "destroyed" or "rendered useless...
...appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?on paper. An enemy can wreck them again?without paper. Something must be done. The Navy needs more Army." Both as a member of the Joint Board and as practical adviser to the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Eberle must design the remedy for a naval ill of which the chief peculiarity is need for more protection from the Army. The report which he receives is confidential but its main features are already known from a "critique" held...
Sweeping out of Cristobal Harbor, the U. S. Fleet started on a dash for Culebra, one of the Virgin Islands. Having completed its joint war games with the Army, which determined the weakness of the Panama Canal defense, the Navy is now intent on its own maneuvers. The object of the present dash is to carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra...