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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chester, flagship of the "treaty cruiser" fleet, took the water from the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Co. at South Camden, N. J. Third to be launched of the eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized in 1924 (the first two: Salt Lake City, Pensacola), the Chester set a record for laying-launching time-one year, 59 days. Scheduled for completion by June 1, 1930, she typifies the long-range U. S. fighting craft which is most objectionable to Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weapon-Making | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...idea was to prevent dishonest motorists from using one set of tags for two cars. Previously a motorist would explain he had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover. About the table were gathered officials from the State and Treasury Departments. Questions were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join the International Bank of Settlements, set up under the Young Plan, was advanced and discussed. Emerging from the White House, the Messrs. Young and Morgan stepped into the first motor that drew up. Halfway down the drive they discovered it was the all-aluminum limousine of Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Citizens Report | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Judge Foley pondered all this in his office at Manhattan's Hall of Records. Finally he decided that: 1) Antonio Comincio had signified his desire to set up his domicile in the U. S.; 2) that domicile, not nationality, decides the succession of personal property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Emanuele v. N. Y. | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing the radio receiving set into a transmitter, which would have enabled them to communicate with the outside world." Also, inexplicably, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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