Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly, the Reds were hard-pressed. In the Peloponnesos they had been wiped out or driven so far back into their lairs that the mopping-up job could be left to the gendarmerie and peasants. Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet's U.S. military mission reported that in 1948 the Communists had lost 33,000 men by death, capture and desertion. "This," said Van Fleet, "is a report of success. However, I want to caution against too much optimism...
...Reds might want to try to appease the West, all right, but Washington remained wary. No less cautious were plain Greeks as they scanned their papers in Athens' sunny cafes last week. Most of them scoffed at the Communist move, agreed with General Van Fleet: if the rebels wanted peace, let them lay down their arms...
...businessman had the push & pull to make big money in Argentina, it was Alberto Dodero. The youngest and brightest of five sons of an Italian immigrant in Uruguay, he built his father's tidy little shipping business into the biggest merchant fleet in South America, became a flashy free-spending tycoon who dazzled even the free-spending Argentines. Last week, at 62, in one of the most startling moves in a full-blown career, he abdicated as shipping king...
Slick, who had already spent $3,000,000 on the airline (mostly from his and brother Tom's oil-inherited wealth), planned to get along at first with his present fleet of 21 Curtiss (C-46) Commandos, in spite of the fact that the schedule boosts his route from the twelve cities he now serves to 54. Slick's route begins in Los Angeles, runs through Texas to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and on to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Said he: "We will expand as we find it necessary. We're not going...
...Louisville. Last week at Jamaica the track was sloppy for the $40,000 Wood Memorial, the race that had been a Derby stepping stone for such great horses as Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox, Count Fleet and Assault. The odds on Olympia were a prohibitive 1 to 3. He shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding...