Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scouting fleet, United States Fleet...
...speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their...
...formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane fitted up as a business office. I inherited a large fortune from my father but have doubled it many times in Brazilian, Spanish...
Financial Partners John Pierpont Morgan and Charles Steele withdrew from the directorate of the International Mercantile Marine Co. last April to avoid embarrassing the sale of its White Star Line. Their London firm, Morgan, Grenfell & Co., was trying to sell the fleet to British shippers. That deal was abandoned. Therefore, last week, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Steele resumed their I. M. M. directorships, and the White Star Line will continue for the immediate present U. S. owned but British operated...
...more do young hearts melt, as once all young hearts did, at the piteous gaze in the liquid eyes of the fleet and noble steed, Black Beauty. That steed was passed and lost in dust by The Motor Boys...