Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miscellany is intended to be taken seriously and whether these believe-it-or-nots are verified with your usual care. In particular, being seriously interested in the homing instincts of birds and animals, I did not miss in the issue of TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take...
...voice snapped: "Two years ago the whole Pacific Fleet was sent out for one woman flier [Amelia Earhart...
John Kennedy sidestepped: "It is much better to be on an American boat now than on a British boat, even if it was accompanied by the whole fleet...
...which supervises all vehicular interstate haulage for hire, was confronted with an odd request. A man named Clarence Young Rose wanted permission to continue to operate what he called Georgia Caravan Camps Inc., which consisted of an annual cross-country trip of a large group of adolescents in a fleet of truckbusses, led, for cash, by Mr. Rose. Before granting the license, the ICC thought it wise to have a good look at Clarence Young Rose and the Georgia Caravan Camps Inc. Its findings: Clarence Young Rose is a big handsome 51-year-old bachelor from Atlanta. His friends call...
...annual exports are carried in U. S. bottoms. The rest moves in foreign carriers. (In 1914 the proportion was 9% of $2,000,000,000; World War I almost quadrupled U. S. exports and by 1919 U. S. tonnage increased 60%.) Hence the U. S. merchant fleet of 27,470 vessels (gross tonnage: 14,632,000 tons compared to 12,907,300 tons in 1919) may not be able to keep goods from piling up on U. S. wharves. Not yet seriously affected, U. S. ports were last week in the following condition...