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The First Aircraft Carriers 1922

FLOATING HOMES FOR NAVAL PLANES
NO EXISTING BATTLE-SHIP, nor any that it is possible to build within the next ten years, can be kept afloat when attacked by airplanes using gas and highexplosive  bombs. At any rate, this is the announcement made by Gen. Amos E. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service, to the Engineers [...]

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Steel Makers Favor Disarmament 1921

STEEL AND DISARMAMENT
THE PATH TO DISARMAMENT, they used to tell us, would be blocked by the makers of munitions. Yet we now hear the Gunpowder King of America declaring, as quoted in these pages two weeks ago, that the war business of the DuPont’s does not pay. “I am at the head of the largest [...]

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Problems with Unilateral Disarmament 1921

WHY THE ARMIES CAN NOT DISARM
AS ARISTIDE BRIAND, powerful of frame, with shaggy head and bushy downward curving mustache, arose to state the case of France before the Arms Conference, he seemed to one press correspondent to be a perfect living type of the old-time Western sheriff; and he might well have claimed for his [...]

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