Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fleet. With the commissioning of the Colorado, only one more capital ship, the West Virginia, may to be added to our Navy until the expiration of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty. The Delaware will be scrapped to make way for the Colorado, and later, when the West Virginia is commissioned, the North Dakota will be scrapped. In this way the number of capital ships will remain fixed at 18, named after various states. No more capital ships will be laid down till 1931; none completed until...
...History. The Colorado was authorized by act of Congress in 1916, along with two others of her class, the Maryland, the West Virginia. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, on a "cost plus fee" basis, the total expense of construction being about...
...only two points?Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly on the center line, with practically the total possible duration. In Mexico other advantageous points for viewing the eclipse are at Ensenada (in Lower California), Hermosillo...
Married. Major General Peyton Conway March, retired Chief ol Staff U S. A., 58, to Miss Cora Virginia McEntee, 26, of Brooklyn, in London. One of the honor men of the West Point class of '88, he fought in the Philippines as Captain of the Astor Battery. In 1904 he was officer-observer of the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1912 did service in Mexico. During the World War he was in command of the A E. F. artillery and was appointed Chief of His first wife died...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...