Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the East Room one day last week walked a Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake...
...salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern rode up out of her "grave." Elated naval officers said the experiment was important because: 1) Never before had a submarine been thus raised by air in the open sea; 2) never before had a submarine so large as the V-4 been brought to the surface by independent means...
Army. Military appropriations added to naval have reached totals which made President Hoover blink in astonishment. For this year he found that estimated national defense expenditures of the U. S. would be $741,000,000. Great Britain was spending only $547,000,000, France $523,000,000. What concerned him more was the prospect of increases next year and the next and the next, mounting to a total of $803,000,000 in 1933. Looking back he found that an average of $266.000.000 yearly had kept the Army & Navy going before the War. Announced the President...
Time was when Germans dreamed of equaling Britain in sea power, but they learned to be less presumptuous at Versailles. Not long ago His Britannic Majesty's government made known that the U. S. is to-day the only nation which they will abide on a parity of naval strength (TIME, July 4, 1927, et seq.). Last week the North German Lloyd was challenging very modestly no more than a passenger speed record, yet even that was bold, and of all who went to watch the Bremen steam away none knew this better than STIMMING...
...dummy three-story building had been made of wood and canvas. Inside were gathered ten young naval cadets, several of them dressed as clowns, and four firemen, two of whom impersonated a bride and groom. They played comic parts in the various rooms, waiting for the red lights which would cause the building to seem on fire. They would then be "res-cued" by the fire company's expert ladder-work. Next the building would be set really ablaze, to display the fire company's hose-work...