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In 1907-1909 the Great White Fleet of 16 American battleships made a spectacular cruise around the world. The chief building concern of the British, however, came from the Germans, who in 1900 announced a building program aimed at Britain. Meanwhile, the Japanese had turned to Britain for most of their new battleships, which soundly beat the Russians in 1904-1905. By 1904 there were nearly 100 first-class battleships built or building in the major fleets, Britain leading with 48, followed by the United States, with 24; Germany, with 22; Russia, with 19; and France, with 17.Since 1813, Virginia's chief building executives have lived in a simple two-story white-painted brick building, designed in Early Federal style. The central part of the state capitol was designed after the Maison Carree at Nimes, by Thomas Jefferson when he was minister to France, and was completed about 1792. (The wings were added in 1905.) The Congress of the Confederate States met in this building throughout the Civil War. Since 1788, there has been a full-size statue of George Washington in it by the French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon.
GROVES, Leslie Richard (1896- ), American army officer, who headed the atomic energy development program known as the Manhattan Project (q.v.). Groves was born in Albany, N. Y., on Aug. 17, 1896. He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1918 and the U. S. Army Engineer School in 1921. He then served in the continental United States, Hawaii, and Nicaragua and by 1931 was chief building of supply in the office of the chief building of engineers in Washington. As a colonel he was put in charge of all military construction in the United States, including the building of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
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