Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soldiers & sailors take an oath to defend the best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...
...rebels. Chile's army & navy have had many an old German warrior on their rosters. The army still wears Prussian spiked helmets on dress parade. But Chilean Admiral Eduardo von Schroeder is not to be confused with Prussian Admiral August Ludwig von Schroeder, who was a German Wartime fleet commander. Admiral Eduardo is young, amiable, Chilean born. His father, despite his name, was a Russian and went to Chile many years ago as consul at Santiago for the Imperial Government. Last week Admiral Eduardo rode in a launch out to the flagship, the grey-sided Almirante Latorre* while mutineer sailors...
...rebels tried to do the same. As the bombs whistled about their ears they dove gracefully overboard, swam ashore but were captured. After half an hour's bombardment the planes returned to land. The aviators sent word that next time they would really try to hit the fleet. Coquimbo's rebels believed them. They all surrendered...
...distance swimmer: the annual women's ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, which she won for the first time a year ago. Her mother, watching the race from shore, was congratulated on her daughter's ability by a famed seagoing spectator, British Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe...
Less precarious but equally amazing were the feats of a fleet of autogyros, flying in formation for the first time on record. Piloted by Amelia Earhart Putnam, Louis A. Yancey and others, the "windmills" flopped vertically into the air, aided by a 30-m. p. h. wind, and descended the same way. The first day's program completed, the flyers settled down to ten days of racing and stunting which were to be climaxed by the Thompson Trophy Race, prime speed test for U. S. planes...