Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President signed the Navy Expansion Bill-authorizing a $1,156,000,000, 20% increase of 46 warships, 26 auxiliaries and 950 planes-asked Congress to appropriate $23,875,000 to begin construction on a dirigible, twelve new boats, a "mosquito fleet," improvements in three Navy yards, and to purchase nine four-engine patrol planes...
...supposed to have been started by a coalition of Asiatic and European powers, the Blacks, while the U. S. fleet was busy fighting in the Pacific. The Blacks were about to invade the U. S. with two fleets, and it was the job of General Andrews' 187 combat planes and 3,000 men "to concentrate first; to reach out and attack targets in advance of the ground arms, with the general mission of weakening and disorganizing the enemy to the limit of our ability before he comes into contact with these ground forces...
...James Eugene Bassett of Annapolis, Md., just out of the U. S. Naval Academy, was transferred to the Pacific Fleet at Manila. He drove across the U. S. to Seattle. There he put an advertisement in the newspapers to sell his car. An unsmiling 63-year-old woman named Mary Eleanor Smith and her crippled son, Earl, answered the advertisement. James Bassett drove out to their house. Mrs. Smith engaged him in conversation while Earl hobbled up behind and hit him over the head with a hammer. Then they cut him into pieces, burned part, buried part, and scattered...
...capital ship Conte di Cavour, received the Realmleader and the King-Emperor when they came aboard. The Rex, Roma, Saturnia and eleven other Italian liners carried members of the House of Savoy, bigwigs of Germany and Italy. In one of the fastest naval getaways ever executed, the Italian fleet dashed out of the harbor with intervals of only a few seconds between each ship, got away in 25 minutes flat, each warboat dipping colors to the Conte di Cavour...
Orator Mussolini recently boasted that Italy today has the largest, most powerful submarine fleet in the world. German Navy experts in the entourage of the Führer said they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...