Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With his face burned a pinkish red by sun and sea wind, President Hoover returned to the White House from reviewing the U. S. fleet off the Virginia Capes. Aboard his reviewing ship, the U. S. S. Salt Lake City, the President had clambered up and down steel ladders, poked in and out of gun turrets, inspected the officers & crew, thoroughly enjoyed himself...
...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...
Stolen Show. The cruisers, destroyers and big submarines V-1 and V-2 (which had saluted by diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors...
...Attack. With no shots fired and distances immense, the engagement of the "backbone" by cruisers and destroyer was unimpressive, inconclusive. Then out of nowhere in the heavens over the battle fleet, aiming at a point 300 yards abeam the Salt Lake City (to avoid possibility of a crash), one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire. These were followed by the "smokers," larger planes flying low to lay five-mile banks of white obscurity behind which, from nowhere on the battle...
...Running concurrently with the Lucky-golfer advertisement, a Chesterfield advertisement pictured a grand & glorious battleship, described Chesterfield as "our Navy's" choice. Pointed by the fact that New York was then entertaining the U. S. battle fleet, the Liggett & Myers Co. advertisement represented attention value in a more conservative form...