Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat yachtsmen, and America's Cup sloops (with crews of 25 or more) mingled with the small fry. But the day of million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America's Cup in 1934 and 1937, is racing...
...great French victory. But, as Vincent Sheean says, "it was a victory of lost causes; it raised hopes which were never to be satisfied," it seemed that France had vanquished England, and that the hopes of the Irish exiles, of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," were to triumph. But the English fleet still ruled the seas, and French colonies in Canada and India were soon to be lost despite Fontenoy. In A Day of Battle, Sheean (Personal History) set himself the difficult task of both describing the brilliance of this victory and illustrating its historic unimportance...
...billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures...
...fifth anniversary last week, PWA proudly pointed out that it had brought forth 25,000 permanent improvements on the U. S. scene. For the first 2,000 projects of its 1938 program, which include everything from a subway for Chicago to fleet moorings for the Navy, the following amounts of materials would be ordered in the next few months from U. S. industry...
Birthday. Gustaf V, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends (popularly known as "Mr. G"), 80; in Stockholm. During 20 hours of feting, he reviewed his troops and air fleet, assigned a popularly subscribed birthday present of 5,000,000 kroner ($1,250,000) to combat infantile paralysis and rheumatic diseases...