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...aggravating our present difficulties my vessels." In 1920 he said at a banquet given by the Lord Mayor of London: "I believe that if the time ever comes when the British Empire is menaced by an external enemy, you may count on every man, every drop of blood, every ship and every dollar of your kindred across the sea." President Taft had to reprimand him for that...
...Naval Board of Inquiry into the causes of the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah last week concluded its hearings until such times as technical tests of the frame work of the wrecked ship can be completed...
Meteorological experts were called and were generally of the opinion that there was no clear danger in the storm evident to those aboard the airship. Some thought that certain inferences of possible danger might have been drawn and the course of the ship changed as a precautionary measure, but they could not be certain...
...removing the legal limitation on the number of naval shore-stations devoted to heavier-than-air craft; 2) increasing the enlisted personnel of the naval air service; 3) establishment of an airship base on the Pacific coast; 4) replacement of the Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities at Annapolis; 8) settlement of the flight-pay question; 9) encouragement of private airplane builders by liberality...
...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...