Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Secretary Adams' Battle & Scouting Forces, with lights out, radios muffled and guns manned, played hide-&-seek on the broad Pacific as they executed Fleet Problem No. 14 (TIME...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...
Knowing well that the De Zeven Provincien could blow him out of water. Commander Eikenboom started chasing her in a small steamer. Sounding a general radio alarm, he roused Vice Admiral Osten and Netherlands India's entire fleet to pursue the De Zeven Provincien. Twenty-four hours later she was located, making a misguided dash for Java's Navy Yard, apparently in an effort to rescue the 400 imprisoned mutineers...
Last week London agents of Japan's Imperial Government admitted that they had bought the 14,8784011 Megantic, the 12,015-ton Arcadian and enough smaller British ships to make a fleet of 40,000 tons...
...prices slightly one day fortnight ago. Another dealer learned about it, shaded his prices a trifle more. The movement spread quickly throughout the city. By evening tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...