Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbor at San Pedro, the Seattle, flagship of the U. S. fleet, lay at anchor. On her deck Admiral Samuel S. Robison,*sturdy stocky, determined, dark-complexioned with iron-grey hair and a close-clipped mustache, faced Admiral Robert E. Coontz, for two years Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet. Everyone wore his very best bib and uniform, immaculate, ceremonial. There were a few stiff movements, an exchange of salutes and Samuel S. Robison became Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet...
Board's affairs transferred to his department, and the Board by majority vote transmitted a letter to the President intimating that Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, should be ousted and the Board left in complete control of the Government's merchant marine...
...Dalton was once a "poor underpaid boy on Cleveland's ore docks." Now he is manager of Pickands, Mather & Co., a large ore and shipping concern, and President of the Interstate Steamship Co., operators of the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. He is an engineer familiar with shipping problems and also a competent business man. Cleveland calls him "the silent iron-king...
...fourth day saw still another event. The Shipping Board adopted a resolution withdrawing from Admiral Palmer nearly all the important powers which he had exercised as head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-virtually inviting him to resign...
...lagoon 240 feet wide filled by water from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...