Word: flotilla
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...press its Ipana, Sterling its Phillips' Dental Magnesia, and United Drug its Rexall Milk of Magnesia ToothPaste without competition? Third point was that the industrial future while looking less depressing than it did a few months ago, looks equally uncertain, and each skipper of the Drug Inc. flotilla wants plenty of sea room to ride out whatever weather lies
First mate of his sleek white schooner was Son James. The rest of the crew was made up of Sons Franklin Jr. and John, five young friends. In the IPs foamy wake followed a strangely assorted flotilla: the destroyers Ellis and Bernadou: official guardians of the President's safety; the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga carrying secret service men; the ketch Mary Alice and the powerboat Comanche, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks; the black Gloucesterman Old Glory swarming with news photographers who were never allowed to get within camerashot...
...Preparations for an offensive war were initiated by Colombia, and the advance of her flotilla on the Amazon constitutes the beginning of an aggression which we cannot regard with equanimity...
...Sunshine and blue skies met him when he detrained at Savannah. His guests: Supreme Court Justice Stone, Vermont's Senator Austin, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan and the ubiquitous Dr. Boone and Detective-Secretary Richey. Aboard the Sequoia, Department of Commerce inspection boat, and surrounded by a small flotilla carrying newshawks and bodyguards, the President's party wound through tidewater streams to emerge in Ossabaw Sound. Gus Ohman, a guide who had taken President Cleveland fishing in these Georgia waters, told President Hoover the fish were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble...
...regularly on the House crew, rowing at number five in the first inter-house race in history last April when the Lowell crew left Dunster in the foam. Just before this river classic Hammond donned a beard and derby when the Lowell eight took part in an all-Harvard flotilla...