Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's yacht steamed last week through the open gate, breaking a red, white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
...cultivate friendly international relations . . . ''To encourage the art of naval warfare." Familiar to all naval officers were such fighting phrases in Policy Sheets. They meant much or nothing depending upon administration. But new and different were Secretary Swanson's pledges: "To build and maintain a fleet of all classes of fighting ships of the maximum war efficiency and replace overage ships." (That meant that the Navy would use the $238,000,000 allotted it under the public works program to build 32 new men-o-war-cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines-to bring its strength...
...that creates world powers." Praising present-day German pocket battleships as superior to foreign fighting craft. Herr Hitler's paper cried: "We need not be anxious! . . . Today, modern naval tactics enable Germans, with their superior capacity for leadership, to escape the monotony of bombardment of the enemy fleet and to succeed with smaller means at their disposal than those which the enemy possesses...
...York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord's American Airways. Few weeks ago Errett Lobban Cord put on a fleet of new "silent" Curtiss Condors, slashed the running time down to 6½ hr. westbound, si hr. eastbound. The new Boeings lopped another hour from that time...
University of Southern California Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times .... Litt.D. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Fleet ... Sc.D. President Foonyer Catherine Woo of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong ... Pd.D...