Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President summoned to the White House and conferred with E. C. Plummer and W. S. Hill, Commissioners of the Shipping Board. Important matters were believed brewing because the President wishes the disposition of the Government's merchant marine placed in the hands of Admiral Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the Shipping Board wishes to retain its powers. Recommendations to this end may be placed by the President before the next Congress...
...Negotiations. The progress of the negotiations in Washington was rapid. M. Caillaux arrived at the railroad station. A fleet of automobiles and a cumbersome delegation was waiting. He took off his green felt hat and was photographed. He told reporteds: " I shall be delighted to see you always, as many times as you want to see me, but I shan't say anything worth while, I am afraid...
Last week, impotent as a matchbox fleet floating near a cake of soap, the remains of the German Navy* maneuvered sadly off Helgo-land...
...Patrol vessels were stationed every 200 miles, a distance entirely too far apart for an experimental flight of this kind with such primitive flying machines as the PN-9s are. Double or triple this number of vessels should have been there. In fact, the whole Pacific fleet should have been placed there, instead joy riding around the Antipodes...
...fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 7) the Italian fleet went forth to war maneuvers. Last week the fleet went forth again to pick up the casualties. For when the ships had returned to port the Sebastiano Veniero, submarine, 213 ft. in length, 925 tons submerged displacement, carrying six torpedo tubes and two 4-pounders, built during the early part of the War, had not returned. She had been ordered to ambush the "enemy" off Sicily and when last seen had been proceeding to her post Destroyers, dirigibles, submarines were sent in search...