Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumult set a yeasty, young Assistant Naval Secretary named Theodore Roosevelt in motion. Spain's best colony, he reasoned, was not in the Caribbean. It was practically under the guns of Commodore George Dewey's Pacific Fleet. Promptly, and without any authorization, Teddy Roosevelt ordered Dewey to attack the Philippines if war came. Dewey's response was an overwhelming victory. Suddenly, although nobody yet realized it, the U.S. had an empire...
ABOARD U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY IN BIKINI LAGOON, TUESDAY--The atom bomb test explosion sank or damaged half of the 73-ship target fleet in Bikini Lagoon but failed to kill some of the goats left aboard the battleship Pennsylvania and fish still were swimming pla- cidly today in radioactive waters...
...unconventional 160-ton monster will have a range of 10,000 miles and a speed of around 300 miles an hour. Test flights will start this summer. If the tests are successful, Convair will build another prototype. Then it will tool up to fill an Army order for a fleet of planes to cost hundreds of millions...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. MT. McKINLEY OFF BIKINI--Vice Adm. W.H.P. Blandy today pronounced the Queen Day rehearsal of the atomic bomb test a success despite a series of attending mishaps, and sent a fleet of small boats into Bikini Lagoon for a full-dress radiological safety exercise involving several hundred...
Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime commander of the Pacific Fleet, was accepted into the Al Koran lodge of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland...