Word: armaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination of W. R. Castle Jr. '00, of the District of Columbia, to be special ambassador to Japan during the international conference on naval armament, which will be held in London next month, was made known yesterday...
...prearrangement) to Premier MacDonald's announcement of a reduction in the British naval building program, of British acceptance of thoroughgoing naval parity with the U. S., President Hoover moved to retard the construction of three 10,000-ton cruisers. He publicly explained: cruisers henceforth are not to compete in armament as potential opponents but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. . . . Generally speaking the British cruiser strength considerably exceeds the American strength* and the actual construction of these three cruisers would not be likely in itself to produce inequality in the final result...
Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME...
...newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
...military airports, . . . photographed, mapped and plotted for military purposes, practically every foot of the peninsula of Ontario and the settled portions of Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army...