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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cruisers Ordered. Quietly the Navy awarded construction contracts for five cruisers as the first third of the ship replacement program authorized by Congress last winter. Three contracts went to Navy yards, two to private plants. Shortly the U. S. will have 130,000 tons of cruisers building simultaneously...
...military airship, received by the U. S. from Germany under an Allied agreement specifying that it be used only for training and experimental purposes, never for war. But the plane-hooking experiment furnished knowledge of speeds, stresses, handling, valuable in the fabrication of the Navy's two huge dirigibles, twice the size of the Los Angeles, by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. at Akron, Ohio. The new ships will have built-in hangars in which to store and carry planes...
...banks have lately been moving hundreds of thousands of what looked like shoeboxes, neatly wrapped. But no shoes were ever so well guarded with firearms, were ever so eagerly received by bank tellers. All the boxes contained money-crisp new paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing the size of its currency, simultaneously simplifying and standardizing the design. The new money became legal tender July...
...five types of currency (U. S. notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, national bank notes) are maintained. But the new bills (6 5/16 X 2 11/16 in.) are about two-thirds the size of the old (7 7/16 X 3⅛ in.). With between four and five billion dollars of currency in circulation, the Treasury had prepared $3,640,000,000-about $30 per U. S. capita- in new bills...
...with weariness, blackened with smoke and cinders, struggled to keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...