Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shipping Board carried out its program drawn up two weeks ago and announced the terms on which it will receive bids for the restricted sale of its entire merchant fleet. These bids will be opened on May 28. Meanwhile it also announced the regrouping of its lines into 18 routes, twelve operating from the Atlantic and Gulf ports and six from the Pacific Coast. The terms of the bidding are: " The bidder must specify the names of the ships he desires to purchase, the price offered and terms of payment, the route over which he will undertake to maintain service...
Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, now on the general board, will become commander-in-chief of the battle fleet with the rank of admiral...
Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, will become commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet with the rank of admiral...
...recent maneuvers off: the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, the United States fleet operated in complete tactical drill with the aircraft carrier Langley, 146 flights being made on and off the deck of the Langley, without casualty to plane or personnel...
Admiral Coontz. On June 30 he will take command of our fleet...