Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet of almost any second class power could have come dangerously close to capturing the Philippines last week. All of the fighting force that remained at Cavite, base of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, were four tenders, twelve submarines, three destroyers up in drydock for overhauling, mine sweepers and auxiliary craft...
Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered from the bows of seven gunboats patrolling the Yangtze River while off Nanking were three more U. S. destroyers. Meanwhile the Navy was busy elsewhere...
...Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically 25 troop transports accompanied the armada, carrying a command of 40.000 men under Major General Malin Craig. Actual personnel of this Blue fleet, about to engage with the Black defenders of the Hawaiian Islands in Grand Joint Exercise No. 4, was 27.250 officers...
Harvard interest in the dashes centers on Hawes, fleet sprinter, who is rated high as a contender in the 40-yard event. For a team participation event, followers of the Crimson runners will have a chance to see Harvard's mile relay quartet, composed of Dodge, Hallowell, Pearson, and Record, traverse the boards against the Yale runners. In the two-mile relay event it seems likely that Barrier, Rosen, Robert Murphy and White will be selected to race...
...preferred and a million shares of common will take the place of bonds, notes, bank loans. The plan is the result of almost a year's study by Edward Dailey Levy, president of the new company, whose experience has ranged from western railroading to the Emergency Fleet Corp. and on to Paraguay where he rejuvenated a decrepit tanning extract business...