Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South from San Pedro last week, bound for annual war games off Panama, foamed the great, grey majesty of the U. S. fleet...
...build two new battleships in case any other signatory of the London Naval Treaty or the new 1936 treaty did so.* Same day in London the First Lord of the Admiralty informed Parliament that His Majesty's Government would this year begin to increase its fleet by 38 new war craft, including two battleships...
Britain sent her fleet to the Mediterranean, talked of closing the Suez Canal...
Honors. To War Minister General Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg the Führer last week presented a field marshal's baton, first ever given in Germany in peacetime.* He made Air Minister Hermann Goring and Army Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch colonel-generals and Fleet Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon...
...unicorn horn was administered to a dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught, and that a single fine sharp horn grew from his forehead. In the Middle Ages it was believed that if a unicorn saw a virgin he would approach gently, lay his head...