Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Panama Canal was blown up in the imaginations of U. S. Army and Navy men. With the U. S. battle fleet at far-away Hawaii, an enemy fleet was thought to be snoring up the Atlantic Coast to attack Hampton Roads. The U. S. Joint Army and Navy Board, having perfected plans for just such an emergency, proceeded with a rapid, potent mobilization of coast defense units at the mouth of Chesapeake...
...mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report the salvation of Washington, Annapolis, Baltimore...
...admirals are sent to sea or to new desk jobs. Last week a new Annapolis superintendent was designated by Secretary Wilbur, to succeed Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton. Rear Admiral Nulton, raised to Vice Admiral, will go to command the battleship divisions of the U. S. battle fleet. To Annapolis will go Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison,* commandant of the 13th Naval District and Bremerton Navy Yard (Seattle). Rear Admiral Robison, who commanded the Atlantic submarine force in the War, commanded the U. S. battle fleet in 1923-1925 and was commander-in-chief of the whole fleet...
...battle fleet was to maneuver off to Oahu and out of Lahaina Roads until mid-June, then plow back across the Pacific to the home continent...
...They have also very kindly and resolutely named me the second or third richest man in the world, and on this account have surrounded me with a display of luxury, with a 'carousel' of automobiles brought by me, and airplanes piloted by the captain of my air fleet...