Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came Princess Jane's chance to stage a comeback. Down to Venice flew two old friends, the most eligible bachelors in Europe. Edward of Wales and Prince George on their way to review the British Mediterranean fleet at Corfu. Because of Depression her Venetian palace is closed, but Princess Jane gave a large dinner for the Princes at the Grand Hotel. The Prince of Wales did not bother to dress. He wore gray flannels, brown suede shoes. After dinner Princess Jane ferried her guests out to the ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace at the Lido...
When U. S. Lines took over its fleet from the Government in 1929, President Paul Wadsworth Chapman outlined a building program on money borrowed from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...
...first day's yacht-racing, Gilbert Gray of New Orleans in his Jupiter led a fleet of seven star-class sloops twice-around a six-mile triangle...
...father, an Irish sea-captain, settled in Gloucester as a fisherman. His vessel was lost with all hands. When "Tom Carroll" was ii his brother's schooner also went down with all hands in a terrific storm off the Georges Banks that took 140 lives from the fleet...
...face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost $2,700,000 of the company's money and in 1923 the company was reorganized with Mr. Car roll back as general manager...