Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journeying to Newport News, Va., by a special overnight train, President Hoover boarded the cruiser Salt Lake City to review the U. S. fleet, for the first time in his Administration...
...Yorkers were made conscious of the fleet's arrival more by what came over in the air than by what lay in the water or, later, walked in the streets. Simultaneously with the battleships an enormous naval air fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger...
...Navy for a major maneuver, had covered the city, wheeled away to land at Valley Stream, L. I. Next day the great squadron traveled to Boston, circled that city and its suburbs in theoretical destruction, returned to its Long Island rendezvous. Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together...
After the air fleet sped away south to its distant base ships, the metropolitan press poured out stories of how the attack, if real, would have devastated New York, wiped out the Wall Street area, left thousands dead and dying. High naval officials, however, discounted such results from such an air raid. In a real attack upon New York, they said, the enemy would not seek to take life primarily but would concentrate its bombs upon the power houses and gas tanks that line the city's shores, upon the railroad bridges, tunnel heads, radio stations. The greatest effect...
Three hundred years before Christ, Carthage was richer?because its fleet dominated the Mediterranean?than Rome. Rome made three wars against Carthage, the first two between 264-241 B.C. and 218-201 B.C. When Rome threatened a third war, Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama...