Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...
...Merchant Marine, "We have a large number of ships engaged in that service. We also have a surplus supply, costly to care for, which ought to be sold. . . . The fleet should be under the direct control of a single executive head, while the Shipping Board should exercise its judicial and regulatory functions in accordance with its original conception...
Navy. Secretary Wilbur reported that the Navy is in first class condition; that economy has benefited the Navy; that the Air Service should not be separated from the fleet; that the machinery of many vessels could be advantageously improved if funds were available; that Commander Lansdowne was satisfied when he set out with the Shenandoah on her last trip...
...Here our obvious general policy should be to maintain our naval aviation in due relation to the fleet. Our national policy calls for the establishment of the air strength of our army primarily as an agency of defense...
...Samuel J. G. Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, told the House that 9 squadrons of airplanes (averaging 12 planes each) are now maintained permanently with the fleet, 27 ½ squadrons are in readi- ness in England, and 18½ squadrons are stationed in the colonies and elsewhere...