Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles...
...seaplane crashed off the coast of Mathews, Va., while he was on his way to Norfolk to practice for the Schneider Cup races. Next morning, his body was found strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
Commonwealth were entertained off Portsmouth, Eng., by impressive naval war games, in honor of their visit to England to attend at London the Imperial Conference (TIME...
Naturally Premier James B. M. Hertzog of South Africa, his Dominion safely distant from foreign naval threats, did not touch upon what his taxpayers might be willing to contribute to Empire defenses. General Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting...
...When the last Imperial Conference met, three years ago, the luxury of actual shell fire was omitted at the concurrent naval review...