Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Citizen Herbert Hoover made a hurried call to Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were uninjured. From Washington President Roosevelt wired Governor Rolph: "If anything is needed wire me at once. Trust preliminary reports are exaggerated." The President ordered the fleet off San Pedro and San Diego to give...
...Pedro, Calif., cash became more plentiful when U. S. paymasters distributed $500,000 pay to the 30,000 men and officers of the U. S. fleet. At Calexico silver pesos from over the border supplemented the currency available. In Michigan, Canadian money helped out. Elsewhere street car tickets and telephone slugs were...
...consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy, saddling her with fascinating but utterly fantastic reparations, sinking her fleet and permanently crippling her army, and stripping her of her colonies. Not content with that, an army of occupation was placed in the Ruhr to force the payment of the national debt. As late as 1931 the old spirit flared up again with the smashing of the tentative German-Austrian...
After six tense days of hide & seek in the big Pacific, the U. S. Battle Force, Blue defender in the Navy's Fleet Problem No. 14, and the Scouting Force, Black raiders, met off California last week, went through 36 hours of terrific mimic fighting. The Black fleet of cruisers and carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence...
Soon this fleet will sail to Japan. "There it will be broken up," firmly stated the London agents. Chinese of course had another explanation. Japan's purchase looked to them like a fleet of transports bought to carry Japanese soldiers to the mainland of China...