Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scouting Force in maneuver's, Vice Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn got word that those two old acquaintances, one now the President of the U. S. and the other the Secretary of the Navy, had appointed him to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, his country's No. 1 officer afloat...
...willingness to compromise was such that salty colleagues honored him and Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black Fleet down from the Aleutians during last summer's grand maneuvers, proved his point with a thoroughness which vastly dismayed such 8-inch conservatives as the man he will succeed next June, bearded Admiral Joseph M. Reeves...
Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling, Commandant of the U. S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. N. Y., sounded off in similar, though more cautious, vein: "The rise of [Italian] air power . . . seems to have drawn the teeth from the League's Sanctions. . . . The British Fleet, the great arbiter of the seas [can] no longer be considered invincible, at least not in closed seas in near proximity to Italy's land-based air force. ... A massed air attack ... to accomplish the destruction of Great Britain's mighty war fleet . . . might succeed...
...cylinders opposed horizontally instead of in a V), which sells for $16,000. A bus is only one unit in production figures, but $16,000 would buy 25 Chevrolet delivery wagons. A ten-ton Mack truck costs around $8,000 without body, a price which would purchase a sizable fleet of Dodges...
...Geneva correspondents this week that they had been used as cats-paws by the British Lion. The meat of these disclosures was that Premier Mussolini had convinced the British Admiralty that if oil or other crucial sanctions be applied he would loose his air bombs upon Britain's fleet in the Mediterranean, even though the Lion might have secured as allies all the cats in Eastern Europe...