Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fleet, Aldershot, England...
...them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow." Policemen walked their beats in pairs...
Announcement was also made yesterday that Commander Williams, U.S.N., will replace Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N. as the head of the Department of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard. Captain Watson, who was formerly Chief-of-Staff on the Battleship Division of the Pacific Fleet, has been ordered to duty on the General Board of the Navy Department...
These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...
...Passed a bill bestowing a Medal of Honor upon Richmond Pearson Hobson for his attempt in 1898 to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac...