Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy is Franklin D. Roosevelt but Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, topranking sailor afloat, must be a truly professional seadog. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson recommended to Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt for approval before Feb. 1 a batch of Navy shifts and promotions, most important of which will give the Navy a new CINCUS. To replace 60-year-old Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, scheduled for commandant of the 12th Naval District with headquarters in San Francisco, Secretary Swanson named the present Commander of the Battle Force...
Does the U. S. really need a merchant marine? Of all the arguments ever advanced for a subsidized fleet, the Commission found only two that were sound-the importance of shipping to foreign trade and to National defense. Today the U. S. is the world's greatest exporting nation, about 10% of the country's movable production going overseas. In imports it ranks second only to the United Kingdom. Without its own ships the U. S. might be left stranded, as it was during the War, when foreign bottoms virtually disappeared from trade routes outside the War Zone...
What has the U. S. got to start with? The total of U. S. shipping is 26,588 vessels of more than five tons, footing up to 14,676,128 tons. The seagoing fleet is only about 1,500 vessels, more than nine-tenths of which will be obsolescent within the next five years. In vessels of twelve knots or more the U. S. ranks behind Great Britain, Germany, Japan and France. In vessels of ten years or less it ranks even behind Italy. To keep ahead of obsolescence would require a building program of $500,000,000 per year...
...Yale got some good players of its own. The first year Yale beat Harvard 13-0 in spite of the soggy underground which held back Mal Stevens and other fleet-footed Yale backs. But Ducky Pond just loved it. He sloshed through for 67 yards and touchdown, Yale's first touchdown in the Stadium since the afore-mentioned magic year...
...football squad handed the University of Wyoming a whacking 19-0 defeat in Laramie last week, but for the 450 Cheyenne businessmen who frolicked on a special Union Pacific train which carried them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...