Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base...
...plans should also be responsible for their execution." Last week he had come to see the man who had advised the U. S. delegates to the Disarmament Conference given the responsibility for building the Treaty Navy. He watched Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander in chief of the U. S. Fleet, sworn in as his successor. Then he turned to the congregated officers and said: "Gentlemen, I just want to say goodbye and to thank you for your loyal and cordial assistance...
Admiral Pratt was a full admiral by virtue of his being U. S. Fleet Com- mander. By virtue of his new, coveted office, he retains that rank. But Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...
...large investment through debentures and preferred stock. Last week it was arranged to return these holdings to Parmelee in return for sufficient common stock to give Checker control. Likewise, Parmelee will be given control of New York's Motor Cab Transportation, operating 2,050 taxis. Altogether, the fleet under Checker's control will now come to 10,000 taxis (operated by Parmelee), one-tenth of the total in the U. S., enough to insure the company of a large replacement business...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...