Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government owns a large part of the U. S. Merchant Marine, a portion of which was built or acquired during the War. It manages to operate a good portion of the ships it owns. In the fiscal year of 1923-24, it lost some $36,000,000 on its fleet-$3,000,000 a month. Of this amount, about 80% was actual operating loss. The largest reason for this loss is the poor condition of the shipping industry...
...ship during practice two years ago and had seen the British ships firing at ranges of 30,000 yd. by flooding their blisters. Another told of a war game conducted by the Board of Strategy at. the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., m which, a miniature British fleet sank the entire miniature U. S. fleet...
...days earlier to the House Subcommittee on Naval Appropriations by Secretary Wilbur. This report was a veritable primer, explaining fully for the lay mind the fundamentals of sea power. Mr. Wilbur explained the nature and uses of the several kinds of naval vessels, showing how the power of a fleet is dependent on a proper number of all types, and then explained what the 5-5-3 naval ratio really means: that by the allotment of tonnage the American fleet would be stronger than either British or Japanese fleets in an action near our coasts (because of the distance...
Arriving at the age of 65, too old to be an active admiral, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, onetime Admiral of the Fleet, has retired, as was announced by the Admiralty last week...
...Ladkin. These swift beasts wore his famed colors?scarlet, maroon sleeves, black cap?to victory. His greatest regret was that he sold Man o' War to S. D. Riddle, under whose ownership he developed into the "fastest horse since Pegasus." Last fall (TIME, Oct. 6) his fleet Ladkin defeated Epinard, the touted French colt, at the Aqueduct race course...