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...flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by brushing the list aside, naming a man who has more than 400 hours at airplane controls to his credit. Tall, spare, keen-jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet...
...telegrams the electric power which welded the Roosevelt- Mc-Adoo-Garner deal and put the New Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow Peril...
Wardrooms and British service clubs echoed with the news last week that "Ginger" Boyle was going to sea again, and in style. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet, he will hold the second highest ranking post afloat in Britain's navy...
...fleet of little dragon-prowed ships with red sails moved slowly westward from Iceland. Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land. North Atlantic gales blew up. Many a little ship foundered, its red-bearded vikings drowned stolidly in their iron helmets and shirts of mail. But Eric sailed on until he came on a mountainous waste of land. Four years later he sailed there again with 14 shiploads of colonists, survivors of 25 ships that had tacked away from Iceland. Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant...
Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...