Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observer of last week's developments who was quite as intensely interested as the Standard Fruit men, was Boston's Victor Macomber Cutter, president of far-flung United Fruit Co. With $1 26.000,000 invested in Central American tropics, with 1.500 mi. of railroad, with 115 "Great White Fleet" ships plying the seas, with nearly 3,000,000 acres of unimproved land, Mr. Cutter had reason to wonder what effect the new Hoover policy of non-pro- tection would have throughout Central America. He was less concerned about Nicaragua where United Fruit's holdings are smallest (some 10,000 acres...
...fleet of cars drew up at the gate of the palace. In the first car sat Dr. Gregorio Maranon, prominent Republican, guarantor for the safety of the caravan. King & Queen bade each other a tearful goodbye. Queen Victoria Eugenie and her children began their flight to France by driving to the Escorial, that rambling building 31 miles from Madrid that is at the same time a monastery, a church, a palace and a mausoleum, whose name is literally "The Dump." A curious crowd gathered at the Escorial railroad station where the Royal car, its white blinds drawn, stood coupled...
April 18?Spring maneuvers of the German fleet; in Bay of Swinemünde, the Baltic...
...Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, highest Naval officer afloat, is Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, whose appointment, announced last week, will become effective in September. Born 62 years ago at Jerusalem, N. Y., his home now is at Penn Van, N. Y. In 1898, eight years after his graduation from Annapolis, he was executive officer of the Hawk in the Spanish-American War. During the War he was on Admiral Sims's staff in London. Four years ago he was a member of the U. S. delegation to the abortive Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Small, bespectacled, suggesting...
...Fleet had just broken up after battle practice in the Caribbean. On the Atlantic and Pacific, ships swung round, raced for Nicaragua. The hospital ship Relief was off the west coast of Mexico, bound for San Diego. Knowing that every bed would be needed, convalescent sailors went over the side in lifeboats, were transferred to cruisers and destroyers while the Relief plowed south to Corinto...