Word: fleetly
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Spars on all 2023 were later reinforced, and Hunter's line is still flying a fleet of 24. Both Martin and Northwest pooh-poohed the lawsuit, and Glenn Martin said it was just "a quarrel between insurance companies which doesn't affect us at all." But neither company stood to win a legal battle if it started passengers worrying all over again about the planes...
Over Manhattan's towers floated a Navy blimp, its silvery sides bearing a message: "Navy Salutes Army Day." Higher up, Air Force and Navy fighters flashed down the blue spring sky in tribute. A task group from the Atlantic Fleet came in, spilled out its bluejackets to march chummily down Fifth Avenue with the doughs. In Army Day celebrations all over the U.S., the armed forces put on a spit-&-polish show of unity...
Died. Sir Seymour Hicks, 78, veteran British actor, author and dramatist; in Fleet, England. Sir Seymour (knighted by King George V in 1935) appeared in nearly 100 plays (he helped write 64 plays, authored eleven books), was the first Briton to take a theatrical troupe to the front lines in France during World...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...