Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other six planes are to be Lockheed Electros, another new twin-engined low-wing monoplane which is also supposed to do 200 m.p.h. The newer fleet will be used to retire obsolete 120 m.p.h. tri-motors on Pan American's routes through Mexico, Central and South America...
...leaving Oxford he went to Manhattan, worked in Wall Street for several months during the summer of 1929. He disliked it, went to Guatemala as a railway in spector, then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back he was off again to Brazil. After finishing Brazilian Adventure he went to Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town...
...pays a 7% to 10 % royalty to the Government. Cheap to produce, most of this oil is drilled on the shores and in the bottom of a long arm of the sea known as Lake Maracaibo, is carried to refineries in Dutch Curagao and Aruba by a fleet of special shallow-draught "baby" tankers able to jump the treacherous sandbar at the mouth of the lake. Three great oil companies share most of this trade: Royal Dutch-Shell, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf. Before NRA, Manhattan motorists were more apt to ride on Venezuelan gasoline than...
...semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down to Rio." "Music Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible. A fleet of airplanes was engaged for a finale with showgirls in gauze uniforms capering on their wings. To play the lead in Flying Down to Rio, RKO wisely persuaded handsome Dolores Del Rio to come out of a year's retirement...
Died. Friedrich von Ingenohl, 76, retired German admiral, commander-in-chief of Germany's High Seas Fleet for the first seven months of the War; in Berlin. He was one of the "war culprits" whose extradition was unsuccessfully sought by the Allies...