Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When after the War the Federal Government set out to put a U. S. merchant fleet back on the seven seas by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, no one thought the job could be done for nothing. How very much the 14-year effort cost the Treasury -and how and why-a special Senate investigating committee headed by Alabama's lean, earnest Hugo Black began last week to discover...
With mutiny in the air, Naval Minister Osumi had to call on the greatest living hero of the Russo-Japanese War, grizzled old Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, to join him in an appeal for discipline. To all Naval yards and stations Minister Osumi manifestoed: "Fleet Admiral Count Togo has just sent us a message concerning the necessity for Navy men to preserve mental composure, being prudent as to their utterances and conduct and ever remaining loyal to their duties. . . . The time is an extraordinary one and we ask you to redouble your efforts in loyal service...
There were two major changes in the lineup. Adzigian, fleet sophomore back alternated with Sherman as running back and Lane went in for Dean instead of in his usual position at right half. Waters was used as the blocking back. Gulian was at right guard instead of left and Schumann was tried out at right guard...
...Laborite Herald jumped from 350,000 to over a million. Last year, it passed the News-Chronicle with more than 1,400,000. The battle was so expensive to all concerned that the Newspaper Proprietors Association called a truce. Free gifts were outlawed. Expenditures on canvassing were limited. Fleet Street settled down to a supercharged neutrality, with Mail, Express and Herald circulations bunched between 1,735,000 and 1,650,000. The peace lasted 15 months...
...next few months Fleet Street newspapers "sold" some 5,000,000 volumes of Dickens, in a mad scramble for new readers. Dickens was only a starter. Washing machines came next. Then sets" of china, electric irons, cricket bats & balls, cameras. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, sets of "modern classics." Fountain pens, fancy pencils, stockings, underwear, wrist watches, pillow cases, pyjamas. Lord Beaverbrook outfitted his canvassers with samples of boots, coats, pants and shoes, sent them west to show Welsh miners how they might clothe a whole family by reading the Express for eight weeks...