Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy. Trim and nautical, the report of Charles Francis Adams told the President: "The Secretary and Assistant Secretaries made such inspections of the fleet, its units and activities, and . . . of the establishment ashore as were compatible with administrative duties in Washington."† It re-outlined the decommissionings and changes to be pursued, as well as the shipbuilding, for construction of the London Treaty Navy (TIME, Sept...
...night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
...London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which he had tried in vain to sell in Chicago. His ability, he needed not to point out, had made him Wartime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, president of Emergency Fleet Corp., onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, president of the American Manufacturers' Export Association...
...Washington 25 to 7. South. Alabama kept its record clean by pushing through the Florida line and grabbing Halfback Red Bethea whenever he started to run. Alabama 20, Florida o. Vanderbilt completed only four passes against Georgia Tech, but one of them fell into the arms of fleet Harold ("Now-I") Askeu and decided things. 6 to 0. Unbeaten Georgia's touchdown in the third period matched the one New York University had made in the second. Then Vernon ("Catfish") Smith place-kicked the point that won an exciting game, 7 to 6. Georgia rates behind Alabama because Florida tied...
Retiring. Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, 61, commodore of the Cunard Fleet, captain of the Berengaria. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the Carpathia, of which he was then captain, received the SOS, rescued 706 survivors. For this he received a gold medal from Congress, a letter of thanks from President Taft...