Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just read with inward amusement of the wrath and indignation of our esteemed former Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., in connection with artist Paul Cadmus' painting The Fleet's In, as described in the Art department of TIME, April...
Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...engine bearing, that the Macon could navigate if necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...
...Councilors of Sunderland, England, voted to withdraw a resolution they passed 15 years ago conferring the freedom of the city on Admiral of the British Fleet Earl Beatty. Reason: Because Earl Beatty of the North Sea had not once visited Sunderland to receive its freedom, he no longer deserved...
...served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American War, as a staff officer in the World War. Since then he has held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers...