Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force the Great Powers to concede that the war is over-which it is not-and to give them incentive for recognizing a new Chinese Government, the Japanese Government announced through Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Fleet in China, that the Yangtze River will stay closed to all except Japanese and Chinese trade "as long as fighting continues."Thus Japan bolted the already slammed Open Door (TIME, Nov. 14). Vice Admiral Oikawa blandly admitted that the interior of China swarms today with Japanese traveling salesmen and contractors of all sorts, claimed they are all accredited...
...Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed off a bulky wooden fender and toppled into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when...
...penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected bills and a checkbook. By 1935 they had two more plants - in Whippany, N. J. and Durham, Pa. But their first is still their pride...
...Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January 1939, unofficially that Halifax...
...Navy, repair ships should be brought up to date; a large minelayer is urgently needed; the submarine fleet should be increased from 56 to 80; promotions should be reconsidered...