Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunting of Pilot Blagin was the result of a criminal lack of discipline which the Government and the Communist Party are removing from the air fleet with hot irons. . . . Regulations that hooligans of the air must not fly within a mile of military airplanes in flight should be applied to civilian aviation as well...
...Navy knew about them, the operations might as well have been held on the dark side of the moon. Greatest hardship fell on the U. S. Press, which grudgingly observed that the maneuvers were "a triumph for censorship." For lack of specific information, correspondents in Honolulu (those aboard the Fleet were virtually incommunicado) sent off tantalizing, imaginative tales about an expected "mass attack of 400 planes on the island of Oahu," revealing that the "entire civilian population of Hawaii" was being hypothetically "enlisted for defense" against a vague "attacking fleet." The Navy's secrecy reached its climax...
...Tokyo Japan's divine Emperor graciously received goodwill-touring Admiral Frank B. Upham of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, 50,000 of whose seamates on 160 vessels were maneuvering four days' sailing away. The Emperor professed himself "delighted to receive the representative of a friendly nation...
While a smaller detachment proceeded to Puget Sound, the main force paused at San Francisco. Then spade-bearded, air minded Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, one of the few Fleet Commanders-in-Chief to be distinguished with a second year's term, steamed into the Pacific at the head of his flotilla. With that, absolute censorship clapped down. On land, less than a dozen officers in the Navy's Operations Office at Washington knew with any accuracy the day-to-day whereabouts of the nation's first line of defense. "Confidential." Except for bare statistics, official Naval announcements...
...Vice Admiral Sir Hugh J. Tweedie to the annual meeting last week of the Union Jack Club: "It may be that all of us in the services are going to see hard times. Most of the British fleet is now working overseas. There may be a cure for that. Adolf Hitler, like his predecessor, may see that our service is once more in home waters...