Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shipping Board at No. 45 Broadway all last week. If it was an auction, it was one of the major deals of U. S. shipping history, for on the block was no less a prize-or white elephant-than the U. S. Lines, proudest Atlantic fleet in the country. Discussions had been going on slowly for weeks, ever since mid-June when President Paul Wadsworth Chapman and the U. S. Lines' directors went to Washington to explain their troubles to Shipping Board Chairman Thomas Ventry O'Connor (TIME, June...
...Khan in two ways: 1) Lord Irwin, almost on the eve of surrendering the viceroyalty of India last April, promulgated a press ordinance making it a jailable offense for any editor to publish an article adversely affecting the relationship of India with her neighbors; 2) on May 30 a fleet of 40 two-ton trucks went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped up through the Pass to Nadir. Object...
...made it too hot for Gould's company in New York, so they packed up the Erie books, boarded a ferry, set up the road's offices in Jersey City's Hotel Taylor. There they held "Fort Taylor," aided by Erie detectives, cannons and an armed fleet of lifeboats commanded by "Admiral" Fisk, until the Commodore came to terms...
...treaty-bound U. S. Navy cannot start building another battleship before 1936. Its new 10,000-ton cruisers with 8-in. guns-light, swift, hard-hitting war machines-are the pride of its modern fleet. In the last 30 months eight of these vessels (Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago, Augusta, Northampton, Chester, Houston and Louisville) have been commissioned. Seven more (New Orleans, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Portland, Astoria, and Tuscaloosa) are abuilding. Three others are still in blue prints...
...Fleet and shy is the okapi, member of the giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece...