Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follow the Fleet" heads a very good bill at the University Theatre today and tomorrow. The Irving Berlin music, sung and danced to perfectly by Fred Astaire and his tow-haired partner, provide hearty amusement. The story, as properly in a musical, is not much, but is gratifyingly free of dear old U. S. Navy claptrap and features a pleasantly satiric song about the Atlantic and the Pacific and "the admiral who's never been to sea." "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Let Yourself Go," "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and "Where...
...export. Last week's demonstration was in the nature of a release for U. S. commercial use. United Airlines, which sets as much store by Pratt & Whitney power plants as American Airlines does by the famed Wright Cyclones, has ordered 26 of the 1830's for its fleet of 24-passenger Douglas sleeper planes (TIME, March...
...inspire enthusiasm. The old Diaghilev ballets have had the greatest success. The youthful company has worked hard to interpret them faithfully, boasts several leading dancers who have conspicuous talent. From the Diaghilev company came Léonide Massine, the galvanic maître de ballet whose dancing is marvelously fleet and polished. Another Diaghilev dancer is Alexandra Danilova, a piquant ballerina trained in Petrograd's Theatre Street. Beau Brummel of the company is black-haired David Lichine, whose leaps have excited the admiration of Harvard track stars...
Xerxes listed among his vassals "the Ionians that dwell in the Sea and those that dwell beyond the Sea." This indicates that the tablets were written between 485 B. C., when he mounted the throne, and 480 when, bamboozled by Themistocles, he sent his fleet to be soundly whipped by the Greeks at Salamis. After that his empire fell stagnant and he was finally murdered by a vizier...
Water transportation is the most important single factor in J. & L. economy. A stanch supporter of inland waterways development, the company pioneered in shipping steel by river in the early 1920's, now has a fleet of 250 barges, six tugs, plying the waters of the Mississippi River basin. On an average, J. & L. dispatches two tows per month, each loaded with 10,000 tons of finished steel destined for Southern and Southwestern markets. Export steel is transshiped at New Orleans. Water transportation saves J. & L. as much as $4,000,000 per year...