Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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... guns , and airships are examined . The number of applications in the last two months , compared with the same two months of last year , is 258 per cent - two and one - half times . That is not a mere sudden and temporary rise , but it ...
... guns , and airships are examined . The number of applications in the last two months , compared with the same two months of last year , is 258 per cent - two and one - half times . That is not a mere sudden and temporary rise , but it ...
Page 237
... gun division . If you have eight gun divisions on a ship , you can get competition between them . That works for the good spirit of the ship . If you can work up a good spirit , you are bound to have a good ship . The happy ships are ...
... gun division . If you have eight gun divisions on a ship , you can get competition between them . That works for the good spirit of the ship . If you can work up a good spirit , you are bound to have a good ship . The happy ships are ...
Page 239
... guns and the proving of shells , mounts , fuses , detonators , and , in fact , everything of an explosive or purely ord- nance nature . It is proved down there before being issued to the service . We estimate $ 214,000 for that . The ...
... guns and the proving of shells , mounts , fuses , detonators , and , in fact , everything of an explosive or purely ord- nance nature . It is proved down there before being issued to the service . We estimate $ 214,000 for that . The ...
Page 241
... gun factory you are asking $ 2,500,000 ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . That is our main dependence in ordnance manufacture , capable of fabricating our biggest guns , our largest mounts , and is entirely under Government control . It ...
... gun factory you are asking $ 2,500,000 ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . That is our main dependence in ordnance manufacture , capable of fabricating our biggest guns , our largest mounts , and is entirely under Government control . It ...
Page 242
... gun will take , in the process of manufacture , approximately two years ; that is , on that one lathe alone . So if we were to wait until the buildings are finished , with the idea of buying the equipment then , there would still be the ...
... gun will take , in the process of manufacture , approximately two years ; that is , on that one lathe alone . So if we were to wait until the buildings are finished , with the idea of buying the equipment then , there would still be the ...
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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