Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admitted by Britain. At the same time Germany declared that only three U-boats had been sunk. Britain and France each replied with a report of another U-boat sunk, bringing the number claimed by them to more than 20 or nearly one-third of the known Nazi undersea fleet. From a smashed U-boat found on Goodwin Sands, British divers took more than 50 bodies. Score for the war's eighth week of all shipping sunk by German mines and torpedoes: six vessels, 28,677 tons. Score for the Allied blockade of contraband goods was not given...
...more dramatic and specific than this blurry photograph was a series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
...financed later (probably by the U. S. Export-Import Bank), President Moore and Treasurer McCormack sold 14 of their old (19-21 years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil it was a good deal. It stepped up her Government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro Line fleet to 62 ships, gave her urgently needed bottoms for carrying her coffee and raw materials overseas now that war has swept most belligerents' ships from the seas...
...that have been holding things up for the last two weeks, Bollay declared, and as soon as they come and a schedule of training flights has been made out, the students who have passed the necessary requirements will graduate to the East Boston airport, where Wiggins has installed a fleet of 20 new Piper Cubs for the course...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Pacific Fleet held maneuvers off San Pedro, Calif.; and 29 scouting vessels were newly based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U. S. was considering helping China and herself by buying enough tungsten for ten years of war. Filipinos and interested Americans agitated for revision of the Philippine Independence Act on the ground that though battleships might have a hard time defending the islands from the Japanese, the U. S. flag defends them just by waving. "Fellow Americans" was what new Philippine High Commissioner Francis Sayre significantly called 15,000,000 Little Brown Brothers...