Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, sat in Dr. Johnson's chair, ate two helpings of veal pie, smoked a long churchwarden pipe...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...
Hatless, breathless, he rushed to the cable office and signaled the world that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy...
...interests of another famed Clevelander, William G. Mather, whose Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. joined the large group of "Eaton interests." Oldest mining company in the Lake Superior region. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. iron ore properties ranked with the richest in the country. Its subsidiary properties include a railroad, a fleet of 24 ships, a power company, bituminous coal deposits, and several hundred thousand acres of timber lands. Thus Broker Eaton's various steel companies were assured of ample raw material, and Cleveland's Steel Eatons and Iron Mathers were well and profitably linked...