Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, at 2 p. m. off Point Loma. there will be a review of the U. S. fleet. 90 warships and 400 planes. Admiral J. M. Reeves, commander in chief, has designated this combined fleet and air review in honor of the school children of the nation...
...Morgan in a stock deal, John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was "exiled'' from Wall Street about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence so pleased the rulers...
...Netherlands and Germany stands British Air Power. It was Mr. Baldwin's good friend Field Marshal Viscount Allenby who made a mysterious reconnaissance of Java in December 1933 which raised Japanese suspicions to the boiling point. This was followed by a British welcome to the Netherlands Indies fleet at Singapore, with Dutch and British admirals fraternizing, Japanese barred...
...they caught the Victoria and Albert steaming up and down eight lanes of sheer, breathtaking Sea Power. Twenty-one-gun salutes rang agreeably in George V's ears-for the thunder of a three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked- but next day the King's delighted subjects were left behind, the floating grandstands were signaled not to follow, and His Majesty led the fleet to sea in war formation, flying from his yacht a signal...
...hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick and smirking at the Greek fleet coming to retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose far end stick the feet of wily Cleopatra. Nearby a Roman lady takes a hot tub bath. Another walks on her hands, sticking out her stomach at beauteous Mumtaz...