Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...
...rate, the term "Baby Clipper" was applied first to the Fairchild amphibian when the first of a fleet of six for Pan American Airways was announced. [It was designed . . . to meet special operating requirements which exist along certain river routes. CHARLES H. GALE...
Today the tables have been turned. Adolf Hitler, by his tearing up of the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, his revelation that he has secretly built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after...
...Versailles. If it be upheld. Britain remains automatically mistress of Europe's seas, while explaining to Germany that but for unreasonable France friendly Britain would raise no objection to Germany's naval demands. Snapped the French semi-official Journal des Débats: "If the German fleet were fixed at 35% of the British strength that would be equal to 85% of the French fleet. Germany would therefore have an incontestable superiority in the northern seas, as we would be obliged to keep part of our force in the Mediterranean and for colonial defense. Consequently we are faced...
Violinist Fritz Kreisler opened his South American season with a recital. Belle Didjah, U.S. interpretative dancer, gave a performance of mechanistic eurythmics, and Ettore Panizza, fresh from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted Gluck's Alceste. To entertain the swarms of Brazilian tourists that followed the fleet half a dozen road companies were giving dramatic performances in Portuguese...