Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor of Japan, the Shah of Persia and the kings of Afghanistan, Egypt, Sweden and Spain all own Rolls-Royces, as do most prominent Indian Maharajas. After trying out a fleet of Packards on the awful roads and cobblestoned streets of Jugoslavia, King Alexander has just ordered two more. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria drives a German Mercedes...
...stock arguments of the advocates of a big U. S. navy is the damage that would be done to U. S. industry if a hostile fleet should reduce the Manhattan skyline to a horizontal position. Statistics indicating somewhat the size of this damage were last week released by the Manhattan Merchants' Association, Quoting from the 1927 Federal Census of Manufacturers, the Merchants' Association stated that in 1927 factories in New York City produced 9% of the total U. S. 1927 output. New York factories turned out nearly six billion dollars' worth of merchandise. Production of the entire...
...Early one morning last week this vane stood very still. It was a fine calm morning, but the Hudson River at Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally Commodore William B. Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge...
...mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant...
...relaxing from problems of speedboat design, he invented and perfected the hydraulic hoist truck which made him a millionaire and gave him the money and the time to indulge his hobby. Gar Wood now has an income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year-old son. But his is a lonely hobby; Gar Wood is as unbeatable on the water as the Etonian Segrave is on land. He longs for competition...