Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more firmly they knit bonds of Moslem unity across the Near and Middle East, the stronger will be Shah Riza's hand the next time he feels like tearing up an oil contract. Dictator Kemal for his part was anxious to talk Persian oil for the Turkish fleet. He was said in Ankara to have turned down British firms and ordered ten new Turkish cruisers built in-of all places -Japan. "The peoples of Islam are intensely admiring of the Japanese," said an Ankara official. "The Japanese have made themselves strong without rejecting their ancient faith or paltering with...
...land department has control over 2,000,000 unsold acres remaining from the original grant. The company owns oil lands, operates a fleet of 86 ships. In recent years it has gone extensively into business in Newfoundland where it bought Job Bros. & Co., owners of the only sal mon factory ship in the world. From Newfoundland Hudson's Bay Co. ships annually to England some 1,250,000 Ib. of famed "Hubay" salmon, the most popular imported brand in Great Britain...
...Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held a mighty barbecue, drove ceremonial silver spikes. Running time for passenger trains between Denver and Salt Lake City over this newest transcontinental line had been cut a good eight hours...
...more was heard that day. Next morning, still missing, NC 12354 was the object of one of the greatest plane-hunts in U. S. aviation history. From New Jersey and New York went National Guard and commercial planes. From the U. S. S. Saratoga went two fleet Navy fighters. On roads and mountain byways roamed grey-clad State troopers. All that day and night and all next morning they hunted high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain country. At noon on the second day Pilots William H. Hallock and Lee Lewis flew low over a wooded peak at Mongaup Park...
After the wireless message and the Commander's message came the battle. Firing opened at 7,000 yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...