Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among Australians it was announced last week that H. R. H. will serve for a time in the Australian Navy aboard H. M. S. Australia. As an officer aboard this ship, he will return to England next spring and for several months she will form part of the British fleet...
...Netherlands Indies. Last week Dutch planters and oil men rejoiced to learn that Queen Wilhelmina is resolved to defend them to the last. Dutch Defense Minister Laurentius Nicolas Deckers, orating before the Dutch Parliament, declared that Japan will never dare to send more than one-tenth of her fleet to attack Borneo which is 3,000 miles from Japan...
...present fleet in the Netherlands Indies equals one-tenth of the Japanese Navy," said Minister Deckers. "Therefore we are safe. A fair fight may be expected if ever the Japanese attack...
Orders from Washington sent 30 Navy and Coast Guard boats and a fleet of private yachts scouring Massachusetts Bay for James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President. Nine hours later Sailor Roosevelt and six companions, blown off the course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
...their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back to Hungary, "we got out of the train in Gyor and bought some horsemeat sausages, and I asked one of the station officials...