Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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Page 776
... Sandy Hook , which explanation is still just as good as it ever was . However , a new fact , which has been in the back- ground of our knowledge for a great many years and which has be come so prominent since we entered into this war as ...
... Sandy Hook , which explanation is still just as good as it ever was . However , a new fact , which has been in the back- ground of our knowledge for a great many years and which has be come so prominent since we entered into this war as ...
Page 777
... Sandy Hook is about 6,500 yards and the width of it is about 500 yards . The width of it as well as the length is important , be- cause many kinds of ammunition there are tested in this way . The most important kind of which the rounds ...
... Sandy Hook is about 6,500 yards and the width of it is about 500 yards . The width of it as well as the length is important , be- cause many kinds of ammunition there are tested in this way . The most important kind of which the rounds ...
Page 778
... Sandy Hook Proving Ground was en- tirely satisfactory and adequate . I do not think you can find that statement . I will say this , that the location of the new proving ground at Rock Island Arsenal was given as the controlling reason ...
... Sandy Hook Proving Ground was en- tirely satisfactory and adequate . I do not think you can find that statement . I will say this , that the location of the new proving ground at Rock Island Arsenal was given as the controlling reason ...
Page 779
... Sandy Hook under any circumstances ; that is to say , we can fire in opposite directions ; we can fire down the bay or up the bay . That has this significance : In firing at long ranges for heavy artillery the projectile goes way up in ...
... Sandy Hook under any circumstances ; that is to say , we can fire in opposite directions ; we can fire down the bay or up the bay . That has this significance : In firing at long ranges for heavy artillery the projectile goes way up in ...
Page 780
... Sandy Hook , and there is not nearly the danger of interruption and not nearly the same diffi- culty in seeing . The island is remote , but at the same time it is acces- sible . It can be reached from Washington by our people who are ...
... Sandy Hook , and there is not nearly the danger of interruption and not nearly the same diffi- culty in seeing . The island is remote , but at the same time it is acces- sible . It can be reached from Washington by our people who are ...
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additional Admiral GRIFFIN Admiral HARRIS ammunition amount appropriation Army Arsenal artillery asking authority barracks bill BRETT building bureau BYRNS camps CANNON Capt cent CHAIRMAN clerks committee Congress construction Contracting Officer contractor Corps cost cotton Council of National court CROZIER DALY Department depot district employees enlisted equipment estimate expenditure expenses facilities figures fiscal Frankford Arsenal funds furnish GILLETT going Government guns hospital increase interposing Island July JULY 16 Kent Island labor Laguna district land Lieut LITTELL machine manufacture MARLATT material MCCAIN ment months National Guard Navy Navy Department necessary Ordnance paid plant purchase purpose Quartermaster Quartermaster Corps quarters railroad repair rifles Sandy Hook SCOFIELD Secretary of War Secretary REDFIELD SHARPE SHERLEY ships SISSON statement station storage submitted supply thing tion transportation Treasury troops United War Department Watervliet Arsenal