Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shipping Board as an independent agency. Contrary to popular belief, this board was not a War creation. It came into being Sept. 7, 1916 as a means of building up a U. S. merchant fleet. When War did come, it established a subsidiary known as Emergency Fleet Corp. (later changed to Merchant Fleet Corp.) which built and operated ships of every description. During its life the Shipping Board and its subsidiary received $3,652,991,915.13 in appropriations, had a book value of $288,523,053 at last report. Fleet Corp. built 2,316 vessels, lost 70, scrapped 18, sold...
...make its fleet "second to none" the Navy Department last week awarded construction contracts for the biggest batch of fighting ships ever ordered in a single day. Twenty-one craft were parceled out among seven of the country's most potent private shipbuilders. The face value of their Navy contracts totaled $129,777,600, although in some instances final costs were to be adjusted to meet shifting price levels. To build this new fleet would require the services of 18,400 shipwrights. When completed, it would bring the U. S. Navy close to the limit set by the London...
...dock was unsuited, the company chartered the dot-like island of Oie. With 4,000 tons of steel, 60 men and ten weeks time, a platform 1,000 ft. long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform was deposit a fleet of airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering the second Dempsey...
...than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade, smallest of the fleet of well-known ocean-going yachts, has functioned so efficiently that last week's statement by the skipper of the Flame amounts almost to a rule of ocean sailing. In 1931 the Stephens brothers won the Newport-to-Plymouth trans-atlantic race in 17 days, then won the biannual...
Threadneedle Street) to release him for the headier air of Fleet Street where he has been appreciated ever since...