Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship, for President Roosevelt, standing on the flag bridge of the cruiser Indianapolis. It would be the first time a President had ever reviewed the Fleet off New York Harbor, the first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy's traditional parade ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise...
...York, May 31--Business got so brisk aboard the U. S. Boggs, communication ship of the Fleet, that the captain had to call a halt on messages to sailors. One girl sent twelve messages to twelve sailors--on different ships, another asked a gob to "Phone at once, Pete's out of town...
...copy of the Panama American, "An Independent Daily Morning Newspaper." These two examples of "frank and progressive" journalism caused no little additional amusement, coming as two bits of printed evidence on top of the mass of occurrences I have witnessed personally in many different ports whenever "The Fleet's In." In spite of Admiral Rodman's indignation it is only too obvious that Artist Paul Cadmus' painting is truly depicted, not only on Riverside Drive, but wherever the fleet is on shore leave...
Operating costs are so high that a factory ship and its fleet of chasers must average a whale a day to break even. The average blue whale produces about 100 barrels of oil worth around $1,000. World production rose from 1,300,000 bbl. in the 1928-29 season to 3,600,000 bbl. in the 1930-31 season. This was more than the world could use either in soap or in European margarine. So in 1931-32 most of the Antarctic companies declared a whaling holiday and production dropped to 775,000 bbl. In the season just closed...
...regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled...