Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laid her up for nearly two months for repairs. But nothing was wrong. Last week Lakehurst mechanics were stitching the last bit of fabric to the Akron's torn skin, finished tinkering her broken fin. When Lieut Commander Rosendahl barks "Up ship!" as he sails to join the Fleet in the Pacific next week, his ship will rise as sound and airworthy as ever...
Retired. George H. Van Fleet, 68, closest business associate of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, editor of the Marion Star during Harding's terms as Senator and President. The Star is now owned by Ohio's Brush-Moore Newspapers...
Died. Vice-Admiral Andreas Michelsen, 62, retired Wartime commander of Germany's submarine fleet; in Fallingbostel, Germany. In his The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 he claimed that 146 vulnerable enemy vessels carrying U. S. citizens were not torpedoed for fear of U. S. wrath...
...steeldom, constructing plants and mill equipment. One of its presidents put up the first foundry west of the Alleghenies. Another built the first locomotive in that territory. A third made the first chilled rolls in the territory. Others cast great cannon, then biggest in the world, for Perry's fleet in the War of 1812, for the Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much of the machinery used, shipped it from Pittsburgh to India. Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history...
First patentee of a plant was Henry F. Rosenberg of New Brunswick, N. J. He made the "Dr. Van Fleet," a climbing rose which blooms once a year, an "ever- blooming . . . climbing or trailing rose," in the words of his patent. The rose's name is "New Dawn...