Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Board is prominent in Great Lakes shipping circles. Born in Madison, Wis., he attended the state university there. Later he organized the Edward P. Farley Co., ship owners, in Chicago. During 1921 and the greater part of 1922 he served as Vice President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and had charge of the sale of government vessels. Last August he retired to resume private business. On June 13 he will give it up again and take over his new duties in Washington, where he is expected to carry on Mr. Lasker's policies...
...said that two-thirds of the Government fleet could be put into commission at a maximum cost of $5 a ton, deadweight, and at least half of it ultimately sold to foreign buyers at $10 a ton less than they can now build similar vessels...
...most luxurious and largest German liner to be built since the war was launched at Hamburg. Herr Ebert, President of the German Republic, officiated at the ceremony, and thanked the Hamburg -American Steamship Company for its enterprise in reconstructing the German merchant marine fleet...
...Twenty-five years later he emerged from the distinguished law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, and at the call of Woodrow Wilson, became in rapid succession: General Counsel to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and to the Director General of Railroads, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, Secretary of the Interior...
Naval experts declare that the treaty prohibits the change neither in letter nor spirit. They also point out the high desirability of increasing the range of our guns because the range of the British fleet in general is 24,000 yards and the range of the American fleet in general is 21,000 yards. (The ranges of Japanese men-of-war are kept secret.) Secretary Denby's announcement, however, puts the matter in abeyance with " the President's approval " until the matter can be placed before Congress...