Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom he had seen only once before but for whom it was in the Mayor's power to do a potent favor. The broker's name was Joseph A. Sisto. His firm issued the securities of Parmelee Transportation Co. which owns the city's biggest taxi fleet (2,300 cars). Broker Sisto met the Mayor at Atlantic City in the summer of 1929. The following autumn he sent his gift, made "in admiration," around to the City Hall. Later he spoke to the Mayor of the need of municipal taxi regulation to curb low-rate "taxicab racketeers...
Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...Monomail, a sleek, fast, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. Main features of the Monomail's design were worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...
Droning off into the murky clouds above Lakehurst one morning last week, U. S. S. Akron left for a long, half-moon swing down through the Deep South and out to join the Fleet in the Pacific. As sound and airworthy as before her mishap last February, the Akron carried 81 persons on her second shakedown cruise, her first continental crossing. Lieut. Commander Rosendahl, covering the trip for the Press, reported the off watches "in their bunks, passing Mother's Day quietly indeed...
...paid attention. In massed squares battalion after battalion of Japanese infantry goose-stepped across the parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon. In the front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu. Behind them loomed the big foreign military attachés of Britain, France, Italy, the U. S. These white officials left the stand as soon...