Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet which Colombia sent 5,000 mi. around the turnip-shaped top of South America and up the River Amazon (TIME, Feb. 6) lay anchored all last week off Tabatinga, a Brazilian port only five miles from Leticia, the port which Peruvian irregulars seized from Colombia last September and which Colombia intends to repossess...
...Minister Afranio de Mello Franco labored day & night in Rio de Janeiro to keep war from breaking out at Leticia. Striding out of Minister de Mello Franco's office after a half-hour conference, Colombian Minister Dr. Carlos Uribe Echeverri was asked how much longer Colombia's fleet would wait before striking to recover Leticia...
...terrifically hot up there on the Amazon River!" cried Dr. Uribe Echeverri. "There is always the danger of fever. Our fleet cannot stay anchored indefinitely...
Both series-Cuba Cup for star boat skippers who finished first or second in their fleet the year before, Bacardi Cup for all star boat skippers who feel like entering-are decided by points, after three races. Somehow or other, Cuban yachtsmen who have the advantage of sailing on home waters seldom acquire many points. U. S. skippers-Adrian Iselin II, Paul and Cornelius Shields, Harkness Edwards, a jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started...
Star boats-there are 940 of them, in 68 fleets in 28 countries, at least one fleet on every continent-are the largest class of one-design racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet...