Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservation Commissioner Swepson Earle hopefully inquired how many of his men had taken part in the capture. Sheriff Cooksey indignantly replied that just before the raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...
Owned by General Navigation Co., Ltd., Vancouver, the biggish steel steamer Mogul has lain for months off the coast of Southern California. Like a great sow whose piglets feed and scamper, the Mogul has provided constant streams of assorted liquor to a fleet of ten speedboats...
...hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman who as commander of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron sank the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor, May Day, 1898. For exactly two years it lasted. Congress made George Dewey a full admiral, first since Porter. Dewey songs tinkled on every piano, roared from every barroom. New York gave him the first of its famed civic welcomes, with Edison bulbs spelling out WELCOME DEWEY...
...another preface Vice Admiral Suetsugu, Commander of the Japanese Fleet, warmly praises Dream Author Fukunaga. "As commander of the Imperial Combined Fleet," he writes, "I may say that if a naval engagement were won in the manner described I would be much satisfied, and if a man like Lieut. Commander Fukunaga were my Chief of Staff, I would feel assured of the outcome. Indeed his article not only will interest the Japanese public but will give many hints to naval experts...
...Dream a Japanese destroyer is anchored at Shanghai near the flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, the cruiser Houston. Acting on his own responsibility, with no orders from his Japanese superiors, obscure "Lieut. Maki" abruptly fires a torpedo into the Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...