Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What pedestrians on the Bowery and Park Avenue, Manhattan, took to be a military parade of 14 armored motor cars, with submachine guns bristling from their portholes, was in reality the Adams Express fleet moving the assets of the Bowery Savings Bank from its old site at the Bowery and Grand Street to its new building opposite the Grand Central Station on Forty-second Street. As the Bank's assets totaled $202,000,000, there was good reason for this elaborate protection...
Emergency Fleet Corporation in pursuance of Mr. Lasker's previously outlined plan. (TIME, June...
...Shipping Board announced officially that there was a likelihood of its selling approximately 100 of its 400 ships in operation. Negotiations are now going on as a result of the bids which the Board asked on its fleet last month. The 100 ships would be sold with five or six trade routes. Definite action may not come for several weeks, however, on account of the time necessary in arranging details...
...unpleasant picture of aerial warfare. The purpose of the lecture was to prepare medical men for coping with tens of thousands of gas cases, and to popularize methods of self-protection among the civilian population. Five hundred airplanes could capture London by anaesthetizing the entire population-if the attacking fleet were humane enough to avoid poison gas. When the matter-of-fact British seriously consider such possibilities, there is little doubt that the next phase of aerial warfare might spell the destruction of civilization...
...North German Lloyd now possesses 30% of its pre-war fleet...