Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before ordering this long trip through Japanese-controlled waters, U. S. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Comrnander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, asked Japanese sanction. Last week Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of Japan's China Fleet, firmly refused. His reasons: 1) possible interference with Japanese naval strategy; 2) the Monocacy might strike a Chinese mine; 3) the gunboat might be mistakenly fired upon by Japanese shore batteries, producing another Panay type incident; 4) the Japanese consider the recently captured Matung boom below Kuikiang "a prize of war" which no U. S. ship...
...wangled a Government ocean mail subsidy calculated to pay him about $3,000,000 annually. For some $9,000,000 he had already purchased on time from the U. S. Shipping Board twelve vessels then valued at almost $16,000,000. By 1931 his fleet of President liners had been increased by two bought from the International Mercantile Marine and two built for him mainly with $11,000,000 loaned by the shipping board...
Japanese cities in the west, which would be the first victims of a Soviet bombing raid from Vladivostok against the Island Empire, enforced full air-raid precautions. Cables from Tokyo said the Home Fleet was being deployed, was "ready for any eventuality...
...Leader Mitsotakis expected his uprising to spread he was disappointed. Soon airplanes from Athens droned over the island dumping leaflets warning peasants to remain loyal. Later in the day. the leisurely Greek fleet, carrying two infantry regiments on its dirty decks, steamed into
...holiday last week in the woodland suburbs of Sofia, thousands of Bulgarians were appalled to see a bombing fleet of 50 planes appear over the distant capital and proceed to heave things overboard. There were no explosions. When startled trippers rushed home they found the bombers had showered only packages of leaflets. These brought such good news that all of Sofia promptly went on a spree of jubilation with dancing in the streets...