Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Will TIME kindly report the greatest flight- as to number in air at one time-of airplanes on record? See TIME, p. 12, issue of May 19, third column, last sentence: "Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from...
...London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the big stroke. Yale cut its beat to 32, began to gain as soon as Harvard dropped from 40. It was a slate-grey afternoon; on the varnished river the fleet of yachts strung with pennants, crowded with people in summer clothes, stood in silence as the boats swept past the half-mile flags. Yale had almost a one-length lead here and was rowing more easily than Harvard. Now and then the Harvard shell swerved a little in its chase as though...
...consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught in an impasse, sided with her Dominions by insisting U. S. cruisers be limited to 18 in order to hold the Japanese fleet down...
...buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
...build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters on it for the crew, launches for the owners. When they lie off Newport each will have a shore telephone connection...