Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chill westerly wind and heavy rain ?bleak January weather, according to the notions of the Northern Hemisphere ?prevailed one fine July morning as the U. S. fleet in two detachments approached the harbors of Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, Victoria...
...harbors were plowed with small craft filled with eager observers. The headlands were freighted with watching multitudes gathered from miles around. The Victorian Parliament adjourned for three weeks in celebration. In Melbourne, streetcar men postponed a strike until after the fleet's departure. All officials were profuse of words. Said Admiral Coontz...
...Forster announced a ball; others offered luncheons, dinners, dances, picnics, motoring parties, baseball games, fireworks, rifle contests. Admirals Coontz and S. S. Robinson will reciprocate with a reception and dance on the Pennsylvania, luncheons on the Seattle, dinners and dances on the California. The Seattle, flagship of the combined fleet, will also hold a party celebrating its 19th birthday. She is the oldest ship making the cruise...
...Y.M.C.A. planned to receive 4,500 sailors on shore every day, provided 1,500 beds and continuous meals. The newspapers published "Home News for the Fleet"?items wirelessed from KDKA (Pittsburgh) on a 63-meter wavelength, by arrangement with The Melbourne Herald, secured through the U.S. representative of La Nacion (Buenos Aires). Every evening at 6 p. m. the items are flashed from Pittsburgh and are received in Melbourne at 8 a. m. almost instantaneously, but by calendar a day later...
First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman and the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, threatened to resign unless more warships were built. They based their stand upon the indisputable fact that the existing fleet would in a few years be obsolete unless replacements were made more rapidly...