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...boats, has another 22,000 tons under construction, and with the 29,000 tons announced last week will soon have a brand new fighting contingent of 83,000 tons. What this weight in war boats means may be roughly gauged from the fact that the U. S. large-cruiser fleet today amounts to 80,000 tons, of which only 20,000 tons are in commission. Of course the U. S. complement of other war boats makes the U. S, Navy superior to the Italian, though as yet by no means equal to the British...
...Harvard University fleet will have two weeks in which to prepare for the four-cornered regatta with Navy, Penn and Tech, which is scheduled for Saturday, May 17, on the Charles. The Crimson lightweights meet next Princeton and Yale, in a triangular affair at Derby on the Housatonic...
Today the U. S. has but 80,000 tons ol such cruisers, of which only 20,000 tons, or. two cruisers, are in commission. At the prospect of building 100,000 more tons, that is, of more than doubling the U. S. large cruiser fleet, honest workmen rejoiced in shipyard cities throughout...
Cruiser Parity. As Delegate-Senator Robinson (Dem.) pointed out by radio from London last week, Britain has laid down so many more war boats than the U S since the War that, even though the construction soon to begin will more than double the U. S. large-cruiser fleet, this will mean not superiority but mere catching up to "parity" with Britain...
...come prosperous, potent (TIME, June 17). Examples are General Electric Co. (TIME, July 1, ct seq.), Ford Motors Co. (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.), the Austin Co. which is building an entire Russian city "Austin-grad" (TIME, Sept. 16), the U. S. Shipping Board which has sold a merchant fleet to Russia (TIME, Jan. 27). But until last week no great U. S. corporation had made the supreme sacrifice of lending its presi dent for several years to the Soviet Government...