Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement of the comparison of numbers to which you refer will be found in the Historical Section in the catalog, copy of which 1 am forwarding, on p. 18. This statement reads as follows: "Colonel Fleet continued as Superintendent of the institution for fourteen years, the school under his direction growing steadily in size, and perfecting its methods and equipment. In the course oj twelve years, from a corps of thirty cadets, quartered in a frame building, and scarcely known within its own State, the Academy grew to an enrollment, including its winter and summer sessions, of 677 cadets, over...
...governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking in the form of postal savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General Land Office. Private educators could ask to have Howard University (Negro) in Washington...
...ready cash. From the U. S. Red Cross came $100,000. The League of Nations Public Health Service cabled an offer of epidemiologists and supplies from stations in India, Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan sent $27,000. The Asiatic fleet of the U. S. Navy was mobilized for emergency work and to look after U. S. citizens (the New York Times counted 896 in the district, all safe, most of the women leaving for mountain resorts, the men remaining to watch their property). The Navy helped out by keeping Hankow in touch with...
Observers noted that though the racing fleet was as numerous as usual the accompanying fleet was smaller than it has been for 30 years. A few big auxiliaries-Cornelius Crane's Illyria, Gerard Lambert's three-master Atlantic, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Michabo-were ready to follow the races, but of the customary squadron of large steam yachts there were only two: Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro and George Fisher Baker's Viking. On board the Viking, because his own flagship Valiant was too small. Commodore Aldrich held a meeting of all captains...
Encouraged by the shouts, cheery or derisive, of Provincetown's Portuguese fishermen, the fleet then set out across Massachusetts Bay for Marblehead, for the first formal gaieties of the cruise. It was a day of light, following airs;Andiamo, lifting and gliding under her great spinnaker, made the most startling run of the cruise and reached Marblehead more than an hour ahead of the rest. After a day's racing at Marblehead the weather was calm again; the fleet had itself towed through the canal at the base of Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. There...