Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to arrive were 50 Tommys from Egypt, who flew in. After them flew six more British troop planes from Alexandria 350 miles away. Late in arriving were 300 British Marines from Crete (400 mi.). Unable to fly to Cyprus, they came on four fleet British war boats...
Immediate cause was the hapless fate of U. S. Lines. This consists of the following ships: Leviathan, George Washington, President Roosevelt, President Harding, America, Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader, Importer, Exporter-also two fine vessels abuilding in Camden, N. J. As everyone knows this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American...
...Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy Ruth Miller, 26, in Hollywood, of an intestinal disorder contracted in Tahiti; Arthur Hammer" stein, 55, theatrical producer, in Manhattan, of a bladder ailment...
...Neither the much discussed New York or Boston harbor and navy yard is designed or equipped to act as a fleet base," the Admiral declared. "Naval opinion is and has long been unanimous that Narragansett Bay, with Block Island for its Helgoland, with one of the finest harbors in the world, and located farthest East, towards any possible enemy's lines, is the logical base...
...most our fleet or the British could do towards attacking the respective countries would be to steam across, place the ball of the thumb on the nose, make a disrespectful gesture, and steam back for more fuel", the Admiral remarked. "Each would wreak such havoc on the convoyed commerce of the other, however, that the publics would raise so much hell that the war would be stopped...