Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After four months' battle drill in the Caribbean, the bulk of the U. S. fleet- 67 men-o'-war-last week assembled at the entrance to New York harbor. At dawn a great line of sea power, ten miles long, began to thread its way up the bay into the Hudson River. The procession was led by the California, the Navy's No. 1 capital ship carrying Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, commander-in-chief of the Battle Fleet, followed by the West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico. Next came the cruisers: Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh, Richmond...
...boats, has another 22,000 tons under construction, and with the 29,000 tons announced last week will soon have a brand new fighting contingent of 83,000 tons. What this weight in war boats means may be roughly gauged from the fact that the U. S. large-cruiser fleet today amounts to 80,000 tons, of which only 20,000 tons are in commission. Of course the U. S. complement of other war boats makes the U. S, Navy superior to the Italian, though as yet by no means equal to the British...
...Author. Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he went with Scott, did not write this book till 1922 because the War interfered. (This is the first U. S. edition.) During the War he was "in Flanders looking after a fleet of armored cars. A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honor as long as you can put one foot before the other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says...
...Harvard University fleet will have two weeks in which to prepare for the four-cornered regatta with Navy, Penn and Tech, which is scheduled for Saturday, May 17, on the Charles. The Crimson lightweights meet next Princeton and Yale, in a triangular affair at Derby on the Housatonic...
...come prosperous, potent (TIME, June 17). Examples are General Electric Co. (TIME, July 1, ct seq.), Ford Motors Co. (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.), the Austin Co. which is building an entire Russian city "Austin-grad" (TIME, Sept. 16), the U. S. Shipping Board which has sold a merchant fleet to Russia (TIME, Jan. 27). But until last week no great U. S. corporation had made the supreme sacrifice of lending its presi dent for several years to the Soviet Government...