Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader's body left Istanbul later on the Turkish battle cruiser Yavuz, was accompanied to Ismid by the entire Turkish fleet and by British, French, German, Russian, Greek and Rumanian warships. At Ismid the body was transferred to a special train for Ankara, the capital, where. after a State funeral, the Ethnographic Museum furnished a temporary tomb...
...Dressed in his uniform as Admiral of the Fleet, King George, accompanied by the Duke of Kent and members of the Cabinet, led the Empire's observance of Armistice Day with the traditional ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. This year no madman's cry of "Stop all this hypocrisy. You are deliberately preparing for war," shattered the two-minute silence...
Cardinal Mundelein's visit to Italy had other spectacular aspects. Upon arriving; at Naples on the Rex, he was met by U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, lunched by the commander of the U. S. Mediterranean Fleet, given full military honors by the Italian Government, which furnished a special train to take him to Rome. The U. S. honors, unprecedented for a churchman, were ordered by President Roosevelt...
...Dollar, the round-the-world Dollar Steamship Line was taken in tow last August by the Maritime Commission. Of the $7,000,000 in subsidy and repair and working-capital loans then allotted, $4,000,000 was last week available, $2,000,000 of it earmarked for bringing the fleet up to snuff...
...resubsidization of U. S. shipping under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the Maritime Commission has this year granted operating subsidies totaling $13,500,000 to 13 lines, is itself operating some 50 small cargo ships and a three-ship luxury line, the Good Neighbor Fleet, to South America...