Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fully for the lay mind the fundamentals of sea power. Mr. Wilbur explained the nature and uses of the several kinds of naval vessels, showing how the power of a fleet is dependent on a proper number of all types, and then explained what the 5-5-3 naval ratio really means: that by the allotment of tonnage the American fleet would be stronger than either British or Japanese fleets in an action near our coasts (because of the distance of the latter from their bases) but this, in an action in European or Asiatic waters, our fleet would...
...great accomplishment of the Limitation of Naval Armament Agreement was not in the fixing of a definite ratio of ships, with its attendant economies, but in effecting an agreement making aggressive warfare across the ocean more difficult. That agreement made it impossible for any one of the great powers of the world to make a successful invasion across the Atlantic or Pacific...
...latest demonstration-and expansion-of this ratio was given last week. Adjutant Bonnet of the French Army, after months of preparation, climbed into a machine motored with a 450-h.p. Hispano Suiza, soared aloft, cometed down at 448 kilos, an hour (280 mi.) to a three-kilometer track near Paris, and won back to France the world's air-speed record, held by the U. S. since 1922. Like Lieut. Williams, U. S. N., who set the last world's record in 1923 at Dayton, Ohio, Adjutant Bonnet flew his course twice each way to establish an average...
...action of the present Congress is likely to be so important as that upon naval appropriations. As a natural acquel to the charge that the American navy has fallen below the 5-5-3 ratio set up by the Washington Conference, came proposals for a building program to restore that ratio. No less an authority than Secretary Wilbur has said that the only way of maintaining the treaty ratios of the respective fleets "will be by a building program commensurate with that of the other signatory powers." He estimates the cost of such a program...
...Washington Conference tried to limit competition in naval armaments by setting up the 5-5-3 ratio as a means to this end. Now Secretary Wilbur proposes to make this ratio end itself. As he interprets it, so long as the United States, Great Britain, and Japan keep to the ratio, the merry race to see which can float the most tons of steel can go or ad infinitum. It has evidently not occurred to him that competitive building is useless unless it confers an advantage upon numbers. To continue to build when an established ratio makes certain that...