Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic difference exists between the naval requirements of Great Britain and France. The Empire depends primarily upon surface craft to rule waves. The Republic must rely upon submarines to blow up such surface ships as approach her shores-because France has a huge army to support and cannot spare the cash to compete with Great Britain in surface warboats. Submarines, being the cheapest effective naval weapon of defense, are in high favor with the "coast-defensive"* navies of France...
...submarine issue and a similar but very technical disagreement over the "categories" in which naval limitation would be practicable has hamstrung every session of the League Disarmament Committee, and resulted in the abstention of both France and Italy from the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27, 1927). Incidentally the Coolidge session adjourned in disagreement when the U, S. and Great Britain became hopelessly deadlocked over the issue of "categories...
...earliest description of the disease was given by British Naval Surgeon John Atkins on his return from West Africa in 1734. He wrote: "The Sleepy Distemper (common among the Negroes) gives no other previous Notice, than a want of Appetite two or three days before; their sleeps are sound, and Sense and Feeling very little; for pulling,drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation...
...Chilean Naval Ministry at Santiago announced, last week, withholding all details, that the transport Anagamos sank with the loss of 291 lives, after running upon a rock near Point Nordhuila, and that Captain Corbeta Ismael Suarez not only did not leave his ship but committed suicide upon the bridge...
...horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect. She had met some storms on the way, but she conquered them almost as easily as the 59,957-ton Leviathan. Virtually unsinkable, she was built to tease all manner of weather and unruly seas...