Word: naval
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Among the few occasions on which any sort of agreement was reached were the 1921 Washington Naval Disarmament Conference and a similar London conference in 1930. As it turned out, those agreements in effect enabled Germany and Japan to cut into the naval superiority of Britain and the U.S., with results that became tragically apparent during World...
...France gives up its claim to the Algerian naval base of Mers-el-Kebir as a kind of French Gibraltar, instead settles for a 30-to 40-year lease...
Stepping down as skipper of the Navy Special Projects Office he launched six years ago was Vice Admiral William Raborn, 56, steely sparkplug of the Polaris missile program. Next billet for "cando" Red Raborn: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Development...
...freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with the British Admiralty, and then wrote a history of naval procurement in World...
...suspend arms trade with Cuba but to instruct the OAS Council to "study the feasibility and desirability of extending the suspension" to other items. At week's end, using the resolution as a springboard, the U.S. let it be known that it was prepared to use its naval forces to cut off Cuban gunrunning to subversive groups in other American nations. And it set about cutting off the last vestigial remains of U.S. imports from Cuba: $35 million worth of tobacco, fruits and vegetables last year...