Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some experience in testing theories, and, despite the feeling aroused by the contest, unanimous pleasure in conducting the sham manoeuvres. The significance of aviation in modern warfare may have been brought out more emphatically than before, but surely this disclosure is searcely so new that it needs a whole fleet to test...
Thus closed the tactical exercises. The fleet has yet ahead of it various practices, before a great part of it churns its wakes westward and south ward to Australia and New Zealand...
...personal friend of President Wilson, invited two steel men to lunch at Washington. Mr. Colby, later Secretary of State, was then a member of the U. S. Shipping Board. At lunch he begged one guest, Charles M. Schwab, to become Director General of the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. The other guest, Eugene G. Grace, admonished Mr. Schwab, his business associate, to refuse...
...Schwab was drafted. He went back to his office, wrote a letter stating in no uncertain terms that as Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation he would have nothing to do with any transactions between the U. S. and any company in which he was directly or indirectly interested. He named 13 companies...
With half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...