Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Battleship Fleet Backbone...
...battleship is still the backbone of the fleet. It occupies the same position in the navy an infantry unit does in the army. Recent wars have shown that bombing civilian populations from the air is useless from a purely strategical standpoint...
...Seventy miles out from San Pedro the U. S. Fleet, maneuvering last week as a rehearsal for spring war games, ran into a light rain that freshened into a gusty squall. Suddenly, from the droning plane formation above the Flagship Pennsylvania came an unrehearsed crash, flame flashing out across the dark sky. Down near the flagship, Plane 11-P-3, having collided in the wind with Plane 11-P-4, dropped into the sea like a burning meteor. Plane 11-P-4 plummeted into the water by its side...
...mighty fleet came to a stop, turned its searchlights on the spot. A boat lowered from the Pennsylvania fished out four struggling men who were carried to the hospital ship Relief, where Jesse Hanley Hester, 33, of San Diego, died of his injuries...
...proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United's "ripes" in New Orleans. By 1930 United was glad to buy out his plantations and fleet for 300,000 shares of United stock. Sam Zemurray has been United's managing director in charge of operations since his 1932 coup. Last week he became head of the company in name as well as fact by succeeding President Francis R. Hart who died last month. Purely...