Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and New London, Conn., learned they were to be shelved or scrapped. Two headquarters of the mine force heard they were to be abolished in a process of unification. In all, 49 ships were affected by the week's news. Most of them made ready to steam...
...them only occasionally, in the manner of revivals, small independents have never stopped making them for rural consumption. This Zane Grey western was a silent, and a good one. With sound added and such photography as few westerns have had, it has the proper ingredients-the chase on horseback, pearl-handled revolvers, the kidnaped girl, the cattle-stealer. It lacks continuity but is worth the while of anyone who regrets that picture companies have turned from the original sources of their inspiration. Best part: Myrna Loy as the jealous wife of an amorous cowman...
...race. Daisy, in love with Barker but unwilling to show it until he mends his shiftless ways, stows away with him. Barker's craft is far ahead until he turns back to rescue a demented derelict in an open boat. The derelict dies after telling of a great pearl bed off a nearby island. Because of the rescue Barker loses the race and his ship. But with the pearls the dying man gave him he buys back the boat and sets out for the pearl-island. Schultz hears of it and follows. While Barker is on the ocean-floor investigating...
...duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
Rear Admiral Joseph Johnston Cheatham, Paymaster General of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, insisted that his agents at Cavite and Pearl Harbor bought meat from Australia and New Zealand only because the U. S. product was either not available or more costly. Naval supply officers last year bought 20,000,000 Ib. of meat, of which only 10% came from abroad...