Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special order from a museum...
...objected to the three-year "time-limit" for construction. His objections, he said, were budgetary. He wanted the President to be allowed discretion in executing the program, dependent upon the condition of the Treasury. To persuade Congress to drop the time-limit, The last week offered to recommend a special preliminary cruiser-building appropriation so soon as the bill should be passed...
...talk (TIME, Nov. 26) about Germany's new super-cruisers, has failed to agitate the Navy Department. Hobbled by the Versailles Treaty on naval construction, Germany has evolved a special type of small hard-hitting battle-cruiser, which may or may not cause revolutionary changes among naval architects. The vessel 9,000-ton displacement, is driven at 26 knots by 50,000 h. p. Diesel motors. (U. S. cruisers are to speed at 33 knots.) It mounts eleven-inch guns (U. S. cruisers eight-inch). Solid-hulled, without rivets, it costs...
This vessel, say the U. S. admirals, is built for a special purpose?defense of the Baltic. It is no threat to the U. S. fleet...
Many a Congressman, too, drifted into the hearing to do special battle for some pet product grawn in his district...