Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering its third week of existence, the Freshman Yacht Club elected Robert E. Seidman as commodore, Frank N. Cunningham secretary-treasurer, and Roger Willcox fleet captain Wednesday night at a meeting in the Union...
...economic aspects of air and sea travel, comparing the costs of a liner such as the Normandie, a dirigible 28% bigger than the late Hindenburg and a 40-passenger, 120,000-lb. flying boat.* For U. S. shipyards to build a Normandie would cost $50,000,000. A fleet of dirigibles with the same annual passenger capacity would cost about the same. For just about a third of that sum enough flying boats could be constructed to handle the same number of passengers in one-fifth the time, at approximately the same fare as a superliner now charges. Looking...
...Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club...
...four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...
...Kennedy could find only nine companies reasonably sure to survive on the new subsidies. And Mr. Kennedy reported: "The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace these vessels at $200 a ton? The Commission is forced to conclude that from all present indications it will have...