Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold in every state. To supply this demand, as well as foreign markets, the company controls 6,431,151 acres of oil land from which flow 147,000 barrels a day. Pipe lines carry this oil 6,505 miles to 17 refineries, after which it is transported in a fleet of 6,863 tank cars and 30 ships. In the U. S. alone are 40,000 distributing outlets...
During the war he held many honorable positions: designer of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, U. S. Shipping Board; expert with housing committee, Council of National Defense; assistant manager and acting chief Town Planning Division, U. S. Bureau of Housing and Transportation...
Those were some of the sums appropriated by Congress for the use of the Merchant Fleet Corp., a quasi-public body instituted in Wartime to build ships to carry soldiers, food and munitions overseas. When the War ceased, the corporation had to pay its bills, to settle with shipbuilders for cancelled contracts. Then its job was to operate the ships it had built until they could be disposed of to private interests...
Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...
...fleet of vessels was sold for $325,000. including only $28,674 cash. Then the purchasers were given a mail contract worth between $350.000 and $450,000 per annum...