Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet of little dragon-prowed ships with red sails moved slowly westward from Iceland. Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land. North Atlantic gales blew up. Many a little ship foundered, its red-bearded vikings drowned stolidly in their iron helmets and shirts of mail. But Eric sailed on until he came on a mountainous waste of land. Four years later he sailed there again with 14 shiploads of colonists, survivors of 25 ships that had tacked away from Iceland. Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant...
...simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around the Phœbus. They found nothing but small bits of wreckage. The Coast Guard destroyer Tucker took from the Phœbus the four men it had rescued, steamed with them to Brooklyn Navy Yard. They were Lieut.-Commander Wiley...
Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...
...largest. Its Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (weekly) has a circulation of some 1,750,000. The circulations of its Vossische Zeitung (daily), Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung am Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications to principal German cities. Though Louis Ullstein and other members of the family tried to forget their Jewish origin, both firm and family have lately been targets for Jew-hating Nazis...
...machines which traveled so fast they were practically invisible, could shear through the toughest steel as if it were butter. When the Directors finally made up their minds to arrest him Knox and his rebels had disappeared. From a lonely Arctic island Knox defied I. A. & A., smashed their fleet and the pax aeronautica to hopeless fragments. When his followers discovered that Knox thought himself sent by heaven to destroy the world, in horror they tried to halt the spreading catastrophe...