Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed additions were: 9 destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, 5 aircraft carriers. Calculations for these added auxiliaries were evolved on the 18-battleship scale and also with the idea of properly equipping the two outer zones of U. S. defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main...
...present "Big Navy" program was proposed in almost identical terms a year ago, before the Geneva Conference was held...
...terms of U. S. geography, population or even the noncompetitive central fact of our having 18 capital ships. The first answer the Navy blurts out is, "Well, look at all the naval bases England has scattered over the globe! President Coolidge, more than tactful, styles the "Big Navy" program as "an orderly construction procedure-nothing more. ... No thought ... of competition...
...what is probably the most honest and accurate expression of the mixed motives behind the present "Big Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find a basis of agreement with other nations and still have a possibility of equality...
Secretary Mellon in a recent article quoted by the Boston Transcript states that the nation's nine year naval program of $740,000,000 amounts to less than half the sum which the women of the United States spent on their cosmetics in the year 1925. He suggests, in defense of the navy, that there are times when gunpowder is more necessary than face powder...