Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt meanwhile was taking no chances with U. S. warships in Chinese waters. The U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, was ordered out of Tsingtao and steamed rapidly to Vladivostok on a "goodwill" voyage to Soviet Russia. Even more pointedly the U. S. S. Tulsa, which was steaming toward Tientsin to give her gobs the pleasure of shore leave amid its Chinese night spots, was ordered to turn tail and steam for Chefoo...
...Woodson & Watson" will read the battery of Presidential service aides next fall when Captain Walter B. Woodson, lately chief of staff & aide, Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, becomes Naval Aide, joining Military Aide Edwin M. Watson. His shore duty up, Naval Aide Paul H. Bastedo takes command of the U.S.S. Qnincy...
Premier to keep in Japan's background and pursue a policy of bedseat driving, for everything depended on whether China's Dictator was now ready at last to risk in war with Japan his fine fleet of U. S. and Italian fighting planes and the German-trained Chinese regiments called "Chiang's Own." All these China's Dictator withheld from action at the time...
Into the flag-decked station rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
...June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon it. Meanwhile the chance of finding the flyers alive, according to the consensus of searchers, was already down to one in a million...