Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ladies and gentlemen," the intercom Li crackles, "out of the left side of the cabin are the remains of the Japanese Imperial Fleet." Banking sharply into the sunset, the Air Micronesia 727 circles the Truk lagoon. Coral reefs color the water in pastels of orange, yellow and green, interspersed with the darker shapes of sunken hulls. "It was on Feb. 16, 1944, that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around...
...week trips are the most popular, but budget-conscious vacationers can get away on a Miami-Bahamas run for as few as three days. Worldwide, there are somewhere around 75 cruise ships in service. Since a first-class liner costs at least $75 million to build from scratch, fleet owners customarily renovate aged vessels, packing them with tiny staterooms. The General W.P. Richardson, originally intended to carry troops, is now in its sixth incarnation as Eastern Steamship Lines' Emerald Seas...
...since it introduced the Valiant in 1960, has gone further and faster toward front-wheel drive than anyone. Its executives are the most bullish of all. Says Executive Vice President R.K. Brown: "In five years, when the entire industry will have spent $50 billion to rebuild an entire new fleet of cars for the North American public, people will look back and say it all started with Omni and Horizon." These are two snappy, speedy, lightweight cars that Chrysler is now showing off to the press, and will put on sale in mid-January...
Through the mud of Fox Island in Puget Sound clumps a stubby and sturdy woman wearing a vibrant green baseball cap, a gold and green sweatsuit, and a T shirt emblazoned SAVE OUR FISHING FLEET. Beaming happily, she feeds her Beltsville White turkeys (one of which she will later carve with gusto at her table); points proudly to three eggs freshly laid by her Rhode Island Red hens; strokes her pet sow, which is ready to have piglets and then become part of her larder; hails her goat April, a daily source of milk; and shows...
...based largely on newly released documents from British, U.S. and German archives, as well as on eyewitness accounts. The fascinating history exhumes and examines the political squabbles and secret deals on land-and the herculean U.S. shipbuilding program that eventually scuttled Dönitz's undersea fleet. With more than 400 action photos...