Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it would appear this august body has the power of prophecy. Two months before the London reviews of Operette appeared to jangle Mr. Coward's poor nerves, Mr. Coward told me and others that he was to be sent on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, the dates of his departure and the dates of his return. You don't suppose Fleet Street had been around to see the Admiralty Office and told them in advance how they were all set to jangle Mr. Coward's nerves, advising that office that if they wanted...
...Next the fleet steams to the southern drill grounds for target practice. Firing five-inchers, gun crews from Harvard will compete with turret marksmen from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech...
...President stood bareheaded . . . to watch a parade of 12,000 persons, including a fleet of small tanks" [TIME, April...
...just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...same short period the Baltic Fleet, backbone of the Soviet Navy, has had three different commanders: Sivkov, Issakov, and now Levchenko. Eight grand figures of the Soviet armed forces signed their names as judges to the condemnation of Marshal Tukachevsky, and of these eight at least four had by last week been purged. A fifth, Goriachev, figures in Moscow as in "doubtful standing...