Word: downwind
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally from the 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief of Naval Operations,* ejaculated as the dreadnaughts passed: "I tell you those ships...