Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain welcomed the proposal of separating land and naval armaments. It must be remembered, however, that the Washington conference attained partial success chiefly because the U. S. was the biggest "giver" in capital ships. At the proposed Geneva conference Great Britain will have to be the biggest "giver" in cruisers. Her future attitude, particularly concerning submarines, will depend on France and Italy...
France is essentially interested in land armaments, will brook no naval disarmament unless land disarmament is considered at the same time. Also, France would be unwilling to give up many cruisers, destroyers and submarines, sine 3 these constitute the main strength of her small navy...
...House- ¶ Passed the Reed bill authorizing $250,000,000 for public buildings (mostly postoffices) throughout the land. This was $100,000,000 more than the original estimate. (Bill went to the Senate...
...President can, by a stroke of the pen, capture every broadcasting station in the land. His signature must be appended to a proclamation that "there exists a war or a threat of a war or a state of public peril or other national emergency." (A Fundamentalist President could conceivably consider a decline in church-membership public peril...
...went off, the U. S. liner President Harding floundered in the Atlantic Ocean like a toothpick in an inky brook. Passengers groped about their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves. The President Harding was completely out of oil. No land was in sight. Captain Theodore van Beek assured everyone that Halifax (Nova Scotia) was only 19 miles away, that he had dropped anchor, that tugs were bringing oil. . . . The President Harding finally reached New York Harbor last week, six days behind schedule...