Word: naval
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Fourteen lieutenants of the United States Navy are stationed at the Engineering School for one year of advanced study in communication engineering, one of the most important subjects in modern naval operations, according to Professor G. W. Pierce '01, director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, with whom the naval officers are studying. The Navy Department sends selected graduates of Annapolis to the best civil institutions for concentration in certain fields of advanced study after their first six year cruise, and one year of post-graduate work in the Naval Academy...
Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering. The naval officers who are studying under him will work with the the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, and transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of the men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...
...issued a nationwide appeal for help. In the first few days of the campaign $879,377 was subscribed. The American Red Cross sought $5,000,000. Two army transports carrying a total of 1,200 tons of food were diverted to Porto Rico. Also to Porto Rico went the naval supply ship Bridge, loaded in New York with 3,490 tons of miscellaneous supplies. On board the San Lorenzo, sailing with ten days provisions for 100,000 people was Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum and his staff, who were to have complete supervision of relief...
...Dutchman spoken than Great Britain's Baron Cushendun and M. Paul-Boncour of France expressed disapproval and repeatedly used the term "surprised." Both told Jonkheer Loudon that their governments could not countenance a reversion to "Secret Diplomacy." Since Britain and France have just come to a secret naval understanding (TIME, Aug. 13) the indignation of their representatives was akin to that of small boys caught in the jam closet...
...fact, he threatened to resign. The reason was that Minister of War M. Paul Painleve would not relinquish control of military aviation, and Minister of the Navy M. Georges Leygues would not give up his hold on naval aviation. Between the two M. Eynac found he would have to struggle to achieve the full powers of his new office...