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 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 ...
Page 243
... GUN . The CHAIRMAN . Do you know anything about the Rice gun ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . A bill was introduced appropriating $ 50,000 to develop it ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . As I recall it , the Rice gun was ...
... GUN . The CHAIRMAN . Do you know anything about the Rice gun ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . A bill was introduced appropriating $ 50,000 to develop it ? Commander KEARNEY . Yes , sir . As I recall it , the Rice gun was ...
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