Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson at the London Naval Conference was last week explaining U. S. Navy needs, the U. S. fleet began to assemble at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter maneuvers. Well out of public observation, 136 vessels, manned by 100,000 officers and men, will there exhibit to their own satisfaction their sea prowess in attack and defense formation, in target practice, night scouting and all the other simulations of marine warfare. With more than 50 ships already at Guantanamo, the scouting and battle fleets from the Pacific began to pour eastward through the Panama Canal...
...smaller cruisers armed with 6-inch guns Great Britain will have an advantage of 42,000 tons, but beyond this, in order to insure exact equality of opportunity, the United States makes the suggestion that each country will have the option of duplicating exactly the cruiser fleet of the other. Thus Great Britain would have the option, by reducing its number of small cruisers, to increase its large cruisers from 15 to 18 so as to give it a total cruiser tonnage of 339,000 tons, the exact amount of tonnage which the British...
...Both the Dollar and the United States lines surpass it in tonnage and revenue. But the Roosevelt Line is rapidly developing into a competitor to be reckoned with by the two older giants. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore the Great, organized the Roosevelt Line in 1920 to operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping Board. In 1926 he took into the company two widely known young shipping men: John M. Franklin, whose father heads International Mercantile Marine Co., and Basil Harris. The Line is now negotiating for a trans-Atlantic mail contract between Baltimore and Norfolk...
...many a British journalist a U. S, reporter is a creature who chews black cigars, speaks to ladies without removing his hat, stoops to anything for the sake of a story. Many a U. S. newspaper man has a vague idea that the denizens of Fleet street are seedy essayists whose physiognomy entirely lacks a news-nose...
...stodginess that sends a reporter out to interview a dozen eminent and nationally-busy people on 'Should kissing under the mistletoe be abolished?' If that is the extent of original ideas that can be created in a newspaper office, the newspapers of the Hawaiian Islands* have got Fleet street beat...