Word: formulas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Herbert Clark Hoover's contribution to the League of Nations' disarmament parley in Geneva was the new method which he personally devised to make possible an exact comparison between the fighting strengths of naval ships of different nations according to an algebraic formula (TIME, May 6). Last week the Preparatory Disarmament Commission adjourned without having so much as debated or considered the merits of the Hoover Formula. From the first the President's representative-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium-had been ready to divulge details of the formula in confidence to those nations...
...moment of adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass...
...Before attempting anything else the Commission should create and agree upon a system or formula for measuring in mathematical units the combative strength of any vessel. Hitherto a different "measuring stick" has been used by almost every navy, and in consequence their experts have really not spoken a common statistical language...
Creation of a Common Measurement Formula...
...Measuring Stick." Engineers like to express themselves in letters and symbols. Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even...