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...Portsmouth, N. H., was bunched the largest submarine owned by the U. S. She was christened "V1" and is the first of a new series of nine submarines capable of fleet work−that is, capable of maintaining the speed sufficient to cruise with the battle fleet, and having an equal radius of action...
...mutiny." The Chicago Tribune got a real thrill out of it with the announcement : "The naval authorities in Cavite [Philippines] this morning discovered a plot to blow up the arsenal in the Navy Yard. The situation is rapidly developing and may require the return of the Asiatic fleet in the opinion of some observers. Others do not think...
Fifth Day. Before the 200-metre sprint, Head Coach Lawson Robertson spat fire at his fleet charges, enflamed Scholz and Paddock so that they went blazing by Harold Abrahams (their extinguisher in the 100-metre race) and E. H. Liddell (the Scotch parson who had refused to compete in "the century" because it was held on Sunday...
...Cockney, Charles A. Vivian, presided over a meeting of "The Jolly 'Corks," now determined to organize a benevolent and protective society. What to call it ? Vivian remembered in England "The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos," but his comrades favored "Elks" when they discovered that animal described as "fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female...
...Leviathan (United States)-E. N. Hurley, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board and Wartime Head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Owen D. Young, Vice President of the General Electric Co.; E. T. Meredith, onetime U. S. Secretary of Agriculture...