Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conversion of eleven fleet submarines by installing "snorkel" breathers, of three more to "killer" subs, of another to mine-laying duty...
While a band sounded ruffles and flourishes, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, 62, commander of the Seventh Fleet at the crucial battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 25, 1944), solemnly stepped for the last time off his flagship, the carrier Enterprise, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, went into retirement after 46 years of Navy service...
...rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter. The time: a smashing 2:02.4. Only two Derbies have been run faster...
...Merchant Alexander Brown advised his sons early in the 19th Century, "but also to have the appearance of correctness." From the day he arrived in Baltimore from Ballymena, Ireland in 1800, spectacled, respectable Alexander Brown followed his own advice. He set up an Irish linen business, gradually built a fleet of eleven sailing ships, became a merchant banker. By the time he died in 1834, Alexander Brown had much more than an appearance of correctness: he had $2,000,000 as well...
...Baltimore's first wooden pipe waterworks. As Brown's four sons joined the business, the firm opened branches in Philadelphia, New York and London, and old Alex was soon established as Baltimore's top financial brain. In 1812, when a British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore." While other merchants fled, Brown helped keep the business community functioning. Years later, when a money panic threatened to wreck Baltimore's businessmen, Alexander Brown proclaimed: "No firm inherently solvent [will] be allowed to fail." This promise...