Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, as they advanced to cut the ribbon that would open Sydney's "Dream of the Century." Royal Air Force planes were buzzing high above, prepared to dive under the arch at the historic moment. Massed below the bridge was a fleet of 150 motorboats. A salute of 21 guns had begun, a band had burst into "Advance, Australia Fair!" and six-foot Premier Lang was advancing with his shiny pair of scissors-when suddenly a man on a horse spurred forward from the ranks of mounted police brandishing a sword...
Federal District Judge Ernest F. Cochran of Charleston, S. C. last week saved the entire navy of Santo Domingo from being swept from the seas. The Dominican fleet consists of one ship, a lumbering motor tanker named Arminda. Last November the Arminda sailed from Charleston for home with a cargo and 39 Dominicans returning to their country after fleeing the hurricane of 1930. The tanker ran into dirty weather. It was forced to signal for help. Promptly the Norwegian tanker Norwold shifted her course, picked up the floundering Arminda and towed her back to Charleston...
...consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...
...original gold plated porcelain trophy) when number 7 jumped from his slide at the second stroke but counted his flesh as naught against the race? Or the famous regatta in which the Bell-boys, their whiskers blowing to the winds and their derbies cocked proudly, rowed through the whole fleet to the plaudits of all (as one spectator was heard to remark: ". . . and they could even row!")? Sir, the old days may have gone, the ancient heroes may have yielded their pedestals to upstarts, but one voice, so long as a quaver still remains, will be raised to defend...
...bill that went to the Senate was sponsored by Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee and persistent advocate of a full-sized Navy. In 200 words it gave blanket authority for whatever naval construction was necessary to bring the fleet to its maximum strength. It appropriated no money; it detailed no building program; it set no time limits. If enacted, however, it would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft...