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...overlooking San Diego Bay they will drape bedsheets and tablecloths to be seen by departing lovers, husbands, fathers. Down to the piers as in the past, they will go, the lean, the fat, the swans and the ugly ducklings to wave and weep good-by to the U. S. Fleet...
...Navy is leaving the Pacific. Maneuvers in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and a ceremonial visit to the New York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant of $6,250,000 from the Federal Government, a mile-long island...
...ships that sail the North Atlantic, only ten belong to the U. S. Lines. But in the past 15 years hundreds of imperiled seafarers owe their lives to the hail-fellow flag that the fleet flies from its Johnny-on-the-spot main masts...
...West to reach the court of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, and gazed upon a civilization which surpassed that of his native Venice. Year ago 700,000 coolies with new China fervor and old China tools set to work on the half-buried old Silk Road and today a fleet of 1,000 Russian trucks shuttle over it carrying supplies and munitions to the heart of China...