Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated bill authorizing $85,000,000 for five-year naval aviation program...
Numerous examples of the influence of weather upon military and naval operations are cited n the essay entitled "The Strategy of Weather in War," including not only the older "stock" examples but also several from the Great War. Professor McAdie was Senior Aerographic Officer, U. S. N. R. F., of the Nary during the War, and trained a considerable number of officers at Blue Hill for aerographic work overseas. "Weather in Peace," "The Structure of the Atmosphere," "Clouds, Fogs and Water Vapor," "Lightning," and "Droughts, Floods and Forecasts," are the subjects of the other five essays. There is thus...
...ultra-reactionary laws; 4) A law punishing blackmailers and blackmailees, if the latter allow themselves to be blackmailed; 5) The taking over by the Government of the Nishihara private loans to China; 6) The creation of a subsidy on domestic pig iron and steel; 7) Large educational and .small naval appropriations; 8) A tax on soft drinks...
...playing more than two games on its southern trip this year, the University is making a radical departure from precedent. Last year the team played five games in the south, winning the first three against Catholic University, the University of Maryland, and the Naval Academy, and losing to George-town and Columbia. In previous years, the Crimson has played as many as six games...
...exposure of a Japanese-Mexican alliance have been awakened by news that Magdelina Bay, in Lower California, has been leased to a Tokio syndicate. In view of the close proximity of this district to the American border, Washington officials fear that the move may mean the establishment of a naval base and perhaps a Japanese colony. Twenty-five years ago the Senate blocked a similar project on the ground that it would be a source of danger to the safety of the United States. Consequently the Foreign Relations Committee is prepared to take active measures to frustrate the possibility...