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...plans should also be responsible for their execution." Last week he had come to see the man who had advised the U. S. delegates to the Disarmament Conference given the responsibility for building the Treaty Navy. He watched Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Commander in chief of the U. S. Fleet, sworn in as his successor. Then he turned to the congregated officers and said: "Gentlemen, I just want to say goodbye and to thank you for your loyal and cordial assistance...
...large investment through debentures and preferred stock. Last week it was arranged to return these holdings to Parmelee in return for sufficient common stock to give Checker control. Likewise, Parmelee will be given control of New York's Motor Cab Transportation, operating 2,050 taxis. Altogether, the fleet under Checker's control will now come to 10,000 taxis (operated by Parmelee), one-tenth of the total in the U. S., enough to insure the company of a large replacement business...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...stayed in New London instead of coming to Newport the trials might have gone on. Shamrock had scared the committee by showing what she could do in light winds. One day, out to stretch her rig, she whisked under her own power through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud...
...decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet. In the World War she convoyed transports, captured off Ensenada, Mexico, a shipload of German spies and U. S. draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels...