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...Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last June Admiral Pratt was retired and Admiral William Harrison Standley succeeded him as Chief of Naval Operations (TIME, May 8). With a President in the White House friendly to the Navy Admiral Standley...
With a second great victory to his credit, Admiral Standley promptly proceeded toward a third. He pointed out that aircraft are just as necessary to a fleet as guns or ammunition, for his new ships he would need 1,184 new airplanes. Promptly the committee approved a bill to increase the Navy's air fleet from 1,000 to 2,184 planes...
...Most fictitious war stories involving the U. S. and a foreign power begin with the mysterious sinking of an enemy ship in the canal which is thereafter rendered useless for interocean fleet movements...
...confused with the novel about the war between Japan and the U. S. with a preface by Vice Admiral Suetsugu, Commander of the Japanese Fleet (TIME...
...they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally a shout went up from the bridge of the U. S. S. Gannet, where stood Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet: "He's up!" Plane No. 5 had found a breeze off a point of land, had climbed on it. At five-minute intervals her sister ships followed her and then in triad formation Squadron 10-F hummed out through the Golden Gate, bent a great circle course over...