Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy men this 1933 maneuver is known as Fleet Problem No. 14. It is the invention of the officer who will umpire the week-long engagement-Admiral Richard Henry ("Reddy") Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet and highest ranking officer afloat. Last year before his top-notch promotion Admiral Leigh commanded the Battle Force when, in similar maneuvers, it was the "enemy" fleet trying to pierce the Scouting Force's defense of the same shoreline. This year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next...
...board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does...
...being taken by a skeleton crew from Bordeaux, her home port, to Le Havre for a winter overhaul. Largest, fastest, most luxurious ship on the Europe-to-South America run, the Atlantique was almost new, had made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank motor cars. Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept...
...competition of motor trucks and busses, the compulsory operation of unprofitable trackage, the unnecessary duplication of plant facilities, the lack of a national plan for transportation development. Emphasizing the country's cash stake in its railroads Governor Roosevelt approved the policy of R. F. C. loans to keep them afloat but only as an emergency measure...
...Press sniffed a good railroad story last week. A committee to look into railroad problems was appointed by the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, the members of which own 13% of all railroad bonds. And vague rumors were afloat in Wall Street that Calvin Cool idge, Alfred Emanuel Smith and others whose voices could command the respect of investors and legislators, would soon look into the railroad situation. There was truth in the story, though its exact nature was probably to remain nebulous for some weeks. It was apparent that the railroads, a blight on the U. S. economic...