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...instruction stage and checks him for solo flying. Students failing to qualify for solo flight are immediately ordered to their home, placed on inactive duty and discharged from the Reserve at their own request. Those students who successfully pass solo check are immediately ordered to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for accomplishment of the second phase of training...
Last year about this time, at Pensacola, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami Beach and Pinehurst a young pro named Horton Smith, whom no one had ever heard of before, began to win tournaments. He went abroad with the Ryder Cup Team, and on May 22 - his 21st birthday - won the professional championship of France. People were saying then that within a year or two he would be National Open champion, but Horton Smith, not flustered by the publicity he was getting, kept going from one club to another, playing golf. In the last 16 months he has won 13 major tournaments...
...Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Pensacola, San Francisco, Puget Sound...
...Last week the actual fighting strength of the U. S. Navy was upped 10,000 tons when, in a bleak windswept ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the eleven million dollar cruiser Pensacola was officially commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
...Congress authorized construction of eight "treaty" or 10,000-ton cruisers. The Salt Lake City and the Pensacola were the first commissioned. Uncompleted in the water: the Northampton, Chester, Houston. Fortnight ago at Newport News the Augusta was launched under a shower of yellow Savannah River water. Unlaunched: the Louisville (63% completed), the Chicago (65% completed...