Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above the cottages of the tiny fishing village of Montauk...
...than a sale" of the lines. Mr. Chapman wanted to be relieved of the expensive duty of operating the largest U. S. steamship, S. S. Leviathan, which is also his largest money loser. He wanted also to be rid of the George Washington, next most costly steamer of his fleet. The Government could then sell the Republic, he suggested, leaving him the America, President Roosevelt, President Harding, and the five ships of the American Merchant Line. Last week U. S. Lines still owed the Government $11,250,000 representing the unpaid portion of the purchase price. The Government has this...
...apparent when they issued a memorandum admitting the original price paid for the Lines was too high. They would, it was announced, take back the George Washington and America, trade two Army transports for the Republic and base the commitments of the future owners on the value of the fleet thus reduced...
Another possibility was picturesque. "Can he do it again?" was what shipping men were asking about Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of U. S. Lines and onetime (1922-24) vice president in charge of operations of Emergency Fleet Corp. It was Sheedy who was credited two years ago with bringing successful Banker Chapman from Chicago into the marble corridors of No. 45 Broadway with his $16,000,000. Last week Mr. Sheedy said he was going to bid again, backed this time by nobody knew whom, but with a reported stake of $10,000,000. Rumor connected this fresh...
Retired, Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle, commodore of the Cunard fleet, commander of the Aquitania; after 43 years...