Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months." And last week Araki sounded off again. He demanded a 1,000,000,000 yen ($267,000,000 at current exchange) domestic loan to squeeze a still bigger Army and Navy out of gasping Japanese taxpayers. At the same time he pointed to the U. S. Atlantic Fleet's continued presence in the Pacific and the letting of new naval contracts to build the U. S. Navy close to treaty limits (TIME, Aug. 14): "There is no telling what America will do when her navy is definitely superior to Japan's after 1935-" Count Uchida...
Newspaper circulation warfare is an old story to Britain. Ever since the War big London dailies have been bombarding each other with gifts to readers: free insurance, free merchandise, millions of pounds sterling. This year, however, Fleet Street has been the scene of a fight which, for sustained fury, is such as London has never seen before. It involves the four biggest dailies: the Mail, the Express, the Herald and the News-Chronicle. Following a brief gesture toward peace the fight entered a new and fiercer phase fortnight ago. Last week shareholders of the Express, aware that...
...grey, square Scot named John Dunbar, dour and extraordinarily shrewd. The other was a swart, stumpy Jew named Julius Salter Elias. Dunbar was made managing editor of the Herald, Elias the chairman and managing director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot MacDonald is Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has never forgiven him for publishing in John Bull...
...Newport to Vineyard Haven run of the New York Yacht Club's cruise. Last year she captained a crew of three men and won the interclub championship on Long Island Sound. In the summer she sails in overalls. In the winter she races regularly with the "frostbite" fleet, in 11-ft. dinghies. Last winter, during a gale that only two other dinghy skippers would risk their boats in, she hit a mooring spile, had to be rescued. This made her a member of the "Loons"-frostbite skippers who have survived tipping over in the Sound in midwinter. Last week...
Last week the following were news: William G. Mather, Cleveland tycoon, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (miner of iron ore in Minnesota and Michigan, operator of a fleet of 20 Great Lakes freighters, manufacturer of charcoal and wood chemicals), last week retired from active management of the company which was given him in 1891 by his father, the founder. Elected to the newly created post of chairman, he was succeeded as president by Edward B. Greene, chair-man of the executive committee of Cleveland Trust...