Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department, and responsible for all Naval aircraft design: one of the designers of the NC seaplanes used in the first trans-Atlantic flight attempt, land pilot of the NC3 on that flight; largely responsible for the catapults which put aviation into the Fleet; and recognized as the foremost international authority on the design of seaplane floats and flying boat hulls. That he is not "the Chief Designer," but is employed in the capacity of Director of Engineering by Allied Motor Industries, Inc., parent company of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, thus making his services...
...called the "meatball." Secretary Adams knew no uninspired solution of the tie would do. Last week, inspired at last, the Navy Department announced that when the Maryland and New Mexico are apart on separate cruises this year, each may fly the pennant. When they are together in the same fleet, the New Mexico shall have it on odd numbered days of the month, the Maryland on even numbered ones. This compromise seemed Solomonic indeed-until the crew of the Maryland realized that the New Mexico would have the "meatball" seven extra days, the seven 31sts of long months...
...Manila Bay was thunderous with gunfire. Weaving skeins of smoke twined about the embattled fleets. There lay the Spanish defenders, here the besieging U. S. Pacific Fleet, a brood of assorted fighting craft clustered about their proud flagship U. S. S. Olympia. On the battle-stripped U. S. Revenue Cutter McCullouch one Edward Walker Harden, a young newsgatherer on a lark (with Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon), swelled with patriotic rapture as he watched Spanish ship after Spanish ship founder. To him the dimly-seen U. S. S. Olympia, hulled five times and her rigging shot away, was the epitome...
Sacked and burned by fleet-riding Arabs was the ancient town of Safed, for centuries a seat of mystical Jewish learning. The Moslem version of the affray could not be learned, but Jews told of fleeing headlong through the streets, dodging into houses, making what resistance they could while the Arabs battered down doors, put bullets indiscriminately among the Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have...
Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green, famed invalid son of the late multimillionairess Hetty Green, received a new automobile to add to his fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel...