Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able for the first time to get out in the open and launch sustained attacks. They pressed their offensive northeast of Madrid for a gain of twelve miles, hurtled through in the Cordoba sector 13 miles, and delivered their first major blows outside of Spain proper by sending a fleet of bombers and the battleship Jaime Primero across the Straits of Gibraltar to shell and strafe Ceuta, important supply base in Spanish Morocco which, ever since the war began, has been Rightist. Snug in Gibraltar last week Britons saw dense clouds of smoke erupt from Ceuta, suggesting Leftist success...
These charges, Rome thought, laid the "juridical basis" for an Italian walkout from the 27-nation phalanx of Nonintervention, raised the risk of Italian action as heedless of Geneva as the Ethiopian war. Meanwhile in Spain, the big Russian air fleet of the Leftists machine-gunned Rightist trenches in one fell swoop along 330 miles of the fighting front...
...colonies and the mother country will begin to be carried by air. Exception is Canada, no scheduled North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could be formally inaugurated...
...native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further Italian troops were being landed in Spain through the British fleet now assigned to blockade its west coast. Attitude of Count Ciano, the Italian For eign Minister and son-in-law of Il Duce, was that the British were in the best position to answer their question...
...Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called it The Fleet's Inl Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged for a chance to hang it in a place of honor, but the painting was discreetly hidden...