Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will cost $22,000,000, and on which but $2.500,000 has been paid. Last year U. S. Lines lost $728,000; this year they will lose more. The gist of Mr. Chapman's S. O. S. was that the Government should take back all or part of the fleet, allow United States Lines to operate them for the Government's account; or after payment of a lump...
...nation with the seesoo (guts) to fight Soviet traders, namely Finland.* In Helsingfors. the resolute Finnish populace was found to be building poison-gasproof rooms in private homes, factories, hotels and hospitals. The idea: Leningrad is only one hour by plane from Helsingfors. At any moment a Soviet air fleet may appear over the Finnish capital, loose gas bombs. On hotel tables at Helsingfors are round green receptacles for coins. A sign on each beseeches: "Give your bit for gas defense...
...however, occasionally be taken to task. It's rather disconcerting to find, for example, a Consolidated Commodore flying boat described as a consolidated (lower case c) Commodore. We hope it, and all other flying boats, are consolidated. We know only the Commodore is Consolidated. Likewise, there are many fleet training planes. There is only one model Fleet training plane...
...Balmoral, her Scotch estate. Great Victoria liked to surround herself with just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships...
...dirigible, Los Angeles, largest of the United States Navy fleet. made am unexpected rip to Boston and vicinity shortly after dusk last night. The great ship, which is the only, one of its size in this country since the ill-fated Shenandoah disaster in 1927, circled over Cambridge bound for parts unknown...