Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLESTON, S.C.--the flagship "Philadelphia" taking President Roosevelt on a Caribbean cruise tonight steamed toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The cruiser was making 22 knots and was expected to reach Puerto Rican waters tomorrow night or Tuesday. Fishing there was excellent and the President looked forward to trying his luck...
...United Press--The Navy Department has been informed that Japan is constructing a powerful "hit and run" fleet that may revolutionize naval tactics, the United Press learned tonight. Despite a screen of censorship this government has been advised that the island empire is building a type of super-cruiser that has no match from the standpoints of speed, mobility and striking power...
When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...
...lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest imparted conditional absolution, although virtually all the poet's 80 volumes are on the Catholic Index as "obscene and blasphemous." All day the body lay on the prow of the battle cruiser Pulgia, which D'Annunzio had dismantled, then reconstructed in a cement bed on the villa lawn, while thousands of visitors trooped silently past...
...result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic...