Navy Department Appropriation Bill, 1926U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 933 pages |
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additional Admiral BEURET Admiral BLOCH Admiral EBERLE Admiral GREGORY Admiral MOFFETT Admiral POTTER Admiral ROBISON Admiral SHOEMAKER aircraft carriers allocation allotment amount appropriation asked Auxiliaries average aviation battleships British Budget building Bureau of Engineering Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance BYRNES capital ships Captain HOUGH Captain JACKSON Captain LAND cent Coco Solo Commander commission committee completed construction cost destroyer tenders destroyers duty employees engineering enlisted equipment estimate for 1926 expenditures expenses fiscal year 1926 force FRENCH fuel funds guns Hampton Roads helium hospital improvements included increase Island Japan Lieutenant Lieutenant DILLON light cruisers maintenance Marine Corps material ment Naval Reserve Navy Department navy yards officers operating ordnance personnel planes plant present purchase radio recruiting reduced repairs Secretary WILBUR statement subhead supply TABER tion tonnage tons torpedo Total training station transportation treaty United upkeep vessels
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Page 60 - English texts are both authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States, and duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the other Contracting Powers. In faith whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty. Done at the City of Washington the sixth day of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Two.
Page 50 - The total tonnage for aircraft carriers of each of the Contracting Powers shall not exceed in standard displacement, for the United States, 135,000 tons (137,160 metric tons) ; for the British Empire, 135,000 tons (137,160 metric tons) ; for France, 60,000 tons (60,960 metric tons) ; for Italy, 60,000 tons (60,960 metric tons) ; for Japan, 81,000 tons (82,296 metric tons).
Page 52 - Treaty, with regard to fortifications and naval bases, shall be maintained in their respective territories and possessions specified hereunder : — 1. The insular possessions which the United States now holds or may hereafter acquire in the Pacific Ocean, except (a) those adjacent to the...
Page 202 - ... if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof...
Page 6 - From all this, we are led to the conclusion that the time is rapidly approaching, if it has not already arrived, when the Atlantic and Pacific must join hands across the Isthmus. We have shown that there is no sea in the world which is possessed of such importance as this southern sea of ours ; that with its succession of harvests there is, from some one or other of its river basins, a crop always on the way to market...
Page 477 - Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food...
Page 59 - Contracting Powers may, by giving notice to the other Contracting Powers, suspend for the period of hostilities its obligations under the present Treaty, other than those under Articles XIII and XVII.
Page 59 - In non-watertight structure), fully manned, engined and equipped ready for sea, including all armament and ammunition, equipment, outfit, provisions for crew, miscellaneous stores and Implements of every description that are intended to be carried in war, but without fuel, lubricating oil, fresh water or ballast water of any kind on board.
Page 55 - ... the principal dimensions, namely, length at waterline, extreme beam at or below waterline, mean draft at standard displacement...
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