Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long blue swell, their stacks belching inky smoke. The 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession. To Admiral Clark had fallen the assignment of pretending to lead his force as an enemy fleet to the capture of Oahu, from which a thrust at the U. S. mainland would follow...
...these, about 25 are at the end of the course commissioned Ensigns in the United States Naval Reserve or Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve. Of the successful candidates, about half a dozen are ordered to one year's active duty with the Aircraft Squadrons of the fleet, or with the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force at Quantico, Virginia, or at San Diego, California. During this year, they will receive the pay and allowances of their rank...
...FLANDREAU VAN FLEET, M.D. New York City...
...less than the Bostonian reckoning, thereby enabling the company to save millions of dollars in depreciation charges and to show correspondingly higher earnings. Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from bananas, more than half of which the company raises itself on its plantations in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Colombia. Last year's shipments were about 50 million bunches, ten million less than in 1931, which were five million below...
...lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...