Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers expressed themselves as "glad and proud" to be able to take part in the work of training American officers. They were very deeply impressed by the sincere ovation they had been accorded on their arrival, and also by the showing of the Harvard battalions they have crossed the ocean to train. Major P. J. L. Azan, the ranking officer of the six men, gave out the following statement...
...better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections of the country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will be met in part by diverting to the ocean service many of the ships now engaged in the coastwise trade, thereby making it necessary for the railroad companies to handle the additional traffic now carried by our coastwise vessels, and I believe that they will be equal to the emergency...
...Reserve, Class 1, is the merchant-marine class. Class 2 and Class 3 require, for admittance in any other rating than as an officer, previous experience in the merchant marine; to be an officer it is necessary to have served at least two years as officer on board an ocean on sea-going vessel. Class 5 is the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. The Navy Department has not enough sea-planes and instructors at present to allow novices to enter this class...
...conclusion, Professor Hart says: "The United States from ocean to ocean is grieved and shocked at the prospect of war with Germany, and would have accepted any honorable settlement; but it would be dishonorable to allow our commerce to be destroyed or excluded from the high seas as the price of peace. The behavior of the officers and crews of the German merchant ships in our ports is one of the many proofs that it is impossible to preserve peace with a nation which so contemns the dignity, rights, and laws of the American Union...
...hull is to be much stronger than any others used in this country, and its seaworthiness lies in the fact that it will get off the water very quickly. From all indications this flying boat should be the fastest ocean flying machine of military type in the country. At present two such boats have been ordered for the Yale Unit, and are the gifts of H. P. Davison. Two more may be added if these prove successful...