Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Adolphus Watson, U. S. N., Chief-of-Staff in command of cruisers of the battle fleet, arrives in Cambridge today to take up his new duties as director of the Naval Science course at Harvard. Captain Watson, who comes from San Podro, California, succeeds Captain Bonyaurd Bourno Wygant, U. S. N., as professor of Naval Science and Tactics...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...
...Navy Department, acting on its own reports from Pearl Harbor, refused to accept Governor Judd's contention that conditions had been exaggerated in the Press. The U. S. fleet maneuvers will be held, as scheduled, next month in Hawaiian waters but neither officers nor men will be given any shore leave in Honolulu or on the island of Oahu because "the situation" there is "too tense...
Other new Newfoundland stamps: 1? catch of cod; 5? caribou; 10? leaping salmon; 14? Newfoundland dog; 15? baby seal; 20? view of Cape Race; 25? fleet of sealing boats; 30? fleet of fishing smacks...
...that its directorate was a roster of "big names." Last week what had been long expected occurred. A receiver was appointed for $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar. Although its earnings are down because of poorer fruit prices, fewer passengers and less freight on the "Great White Fleet," United Fruit still remains supreme in its field. Last week it was apparent that United Fruit has lost none of the aggressive spirit which has so firmly entrenched it in Central America. In Honduras the company was building a rail-road through the banana country, acting on a concession granted...