Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsor of the fleet's visit to Montauk was Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois, the blocky, florid chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Congressman Britten summers at Montauk. He was there to welcome the fleet. So was his good friend Carl Graham Fisher, board chairman of Montauk Beach Development Corp. Mr. Britten had outlined a gay, busy week for the Navy. The hostesses of swank East Hampton and Southampton nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch...
...dirty night the fleet anchored, Seaman Francis Barnes fell overboard from a ship's boat and was drowned. Next day it rained hard. Grumblings began to be heard. The grumblings became open complaints: there was nothing to do in Montauk, nothing to look at but the fishermen's cottages and the hotel, at which prices were too high even for captains; rain kept all but a few sailors from the carnival at Patchogue; it would cost $5 for a round-trip ticket to New York. The complaints grew louder, settled into an insistent charge of "logrolling...
Officers & men and the newspapers put together two-unusual visits to Montauk this year by the Los Angeles, the scouting fleet, the U. S. S. Constitution-and two- Mr. Britten's friendship for Mr. Fisher and his financial interest in Mr. Fisher's development corporation-and considered the sum self-evident. Mr. Britten denied they made four...
...headed by Robert Stanley Dollar. Optimistic Philip Franklin offered $3,000,000 in liquidation of existing indebtedness and otherwise complied with all the conditions laid down by the Board. Tenacious Mr. Chapman offered $3,170,900 but dodged the problem of operating the Leviathan, heaviest money-loser of the fleet. Let the Shipping Board take title to the Leviathan, suggested Mr. Chapman, and he would operate her at his expense on a minimum schedule of five trips a year for five years. Mr. Franklin was willing to keep this floating elephant and send her on seven circuits a year...
...Henry Ford, whose experiments on the water have not always been successful, prepared to send his new S. S. Edgewater on her maiden voyage from River Rouge, Mich., to Edgewater, N. J. Forerunner of a big fleet of cargo carriers, S. S. Edgewater is no ordinary ship. Tidewater tars would not recognize her as she passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel...