Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wellesley College has achieved honors in a new field for it leads all competitors including Harvard, in the state-wide safety contest for automobile trucks. The group in which the college fleet of vehicles is entered comprises cars used for "cartage" transfer and storage. Other entrants are "The President and Fellows of Harvard College", Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company, Ltd., United States Post Office, half a dozen big express companies, several newspaper delivery fleets and many large mills and other industrial enterprises...
...flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five...
Thus last week the new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, announced his reorganization of the Fleet. He also reorganized the air force. The Admiral felt, and Secretary Charles Francis Adams said, that the scrapping, shelving, unifying would make primarily for increased efficiency, would only "incidentally save some money." The savings will amount to $3,440,000 in fiscal 1931 and $7,758,949 in fiscal...
Died. Rear Admiral Albert Weston Grant, 74, chief influence for the building of the Navy's submarine force, crew captain at Annapolis in 1877, chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet sent around the world by Roosevelt, pre-War commander of the submarine force of the Atlantic fleet, recently commander of the Navy Yard in Washington; as a result of disorders of the stomach, at the Naval Hospital in Washington...
...services wherever possible. For those reasons Aviation Corp. last week yielded its Cleveland-Chicago passenger service (Universal Division) to National Air Transport, which carries the mail. N. A. T., which recently acquired Stout Air Lines (its sister subsidiary in United Aircraft & Transport), immediately placed in service a new fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate Oct. 15. Not improbably Avco will seek to extend its control...