Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watchers on the mountains above happy Honolulu descried a blur, then some blotches, then a forest, then an armada on the cobalt southern horizon of Hawaii. It was the U. S. battle fleet, 82 ships strong, steaming to Honolulu and Pearl Harbors for spring maneuvers. On the way out from California, an "enemy" had been met and adroitly disposed of. Now, nearing shore, the great fleet moved in circumspect battle formation, a giant circle of ships with the dreadnaughts in the centre, the cruisers in the perimeter and the carrier Langley out ahead releasing planes to scout far ahead...
...said she would have jumped overboard if she had known her father would hear about it. They locked her up in a boarding house until the father came. Meantime, Commander Cobb sent a radio to Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, commanding the destroyer force of the Scouting Fleet. Commander Clark and his ships had just left New Orleans, bound for Atlantic Coast ports...
...start branching out from production into Oil's subtler phases-transportation, refining, marketing. He formed the Sinclair Oil & Refining Co. out of seven small enterprises and built his own pipe-line to the Great Lakes. In 1917 he formed the Sinclair Gulf Corp. with his own fleet of ships. While larger companies were getting War contracts, he, an alert independent, developed a Latin-American trade. In 1919 he let his friends in on various "ground floors" of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., a towering organization of world-wide schemes...
...Author's Note to THE MURDER AT FLEET (J. P. Lippincott Company, 1928. $2.00.) Eric Brett Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood...
Since the switch in the boatings on March 28, the new combinations have not had weather favorable enough to allow of any competitive races, and the regatta this afternoon will give the first opportunity for ranking the University fleet. In the informal skirmishes of the earlier part of the season. Crew C. stroked by Lawrence, proved its superiority...