Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green...
...surprise" was handed Admiral Hepburn readymade. He was to come upon the Islands like the admiral of an enemy fleet who had achieved a surprise, catching them while the U. S. Fleet was theoretically in California ports. Time-eight days-was the essence of the problem. If the Island's defense force of small vessels, 400 planes, 20,000 soldiers and coast defense guns, all concentrated on Oahu, could hold off the attackers for eight days, the U. S. Fleet would have time to arrive from the continent. If the attackers could land troops, capture the island of Oahu...
...last week defending plane scouring the skies caught sight of a small squadron of the attackers, one battleship and a few fast cruisers, which had steamed ahead of the rest of the fleet. They were heading not for strategic Oahu but for the island of Hawaii, largest of the group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore...
...grimmest fact was that in event of a real war, no imagination would be needed, and eight days would be a long stretch in Hell. When hostilities suspended, the fleet sailed into Pearl Harbor and Honoluluans turned to happier thoughts as 8,000 officers & men came ashore on leave...
Married. David Field Beatty. Earl Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby, 32, son & heir of the Wartime British Admiral of the Fleet, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Marshall Field; and Mrs. Dorothy Power Sands. 34, once-widowed, once-divorced Virginian ; in London's Guildhall. His mother, the late Ethel Field Beatty, left...