Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queer Bird. Iowa's 2,500,000 had never seen such a strange craft as The Des Moines Register and Tribune's autogiro when in 1931-one of the first seven delivered in America-it joined The Register and Tribune air fleet, fourth in its aerial service...
...cargoes now carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet of Finnish, Swedish and German windjammers has set out for Britain from Australia, scupper-deep with Australian wheat. They call it the "grain race...
Last March Villiers sailed as second mate with Captain de Cloux on the Parma. two months behind the first of the fleet. Mate Villiers had served as seaman in two previous races. Members of the big crew of 32 were the Captain's daughter Marie Ann and one Elizabeth Jacobsen, 19, pretty, brawny daughter of a retired Brooklyn sea-captain. There were 14 other apprentices. On the voyage Villiers made a film with Miss Jacobsen (screen alias: Sonia Lind) cast as heroine. Captain de Cloux's chief rivals were the Herzogin Cecilie with which...
...history of Britain's part in the World War is complete without a chapter on Horatio Bottomley. He was worth a regiment of recruiting sergeants in the early days of the War. He breakfasted with David Lloyd George regularly at Downing Street, reviewed the Grand Fleet from Admiral Lord Beatty's flagship, earned the title of Britain's Unofficial Prime Minister. Nervous over the introduction of conscription, the Asquith Cabinet demanded just one thing: the support of Horatio Bottomley...
...distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...