Word: warship
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...Pedro harbor fluttered with bunting, resounded with saluting cannon. The U. S. S. Maryland steamed out; first stop Corinto, Nicaragua. When the Hoovers went to their cabin Mrs. Hoover had to admire the first vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
...young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
Unfriendly Falcon Island has repeatedly vexed His Majesty's Government in this fashion, since it was originally charted by a British warship...
Waging War. When they stop to think of it, Navy men point back at Business as the real instigator of war. Not the Navy Department, with its warship plans, but the Department of Commerce, complying with U. S. manufacturers' demands for new foreign markets, lays the basis for international contention...