Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INTENSE FEELING IN THIS MATTER RESULTS FROM RECENT TRIP MADE TO GREECE, WHEN AT GENERAL VAN FLEET'S INVITATION ACCOMPANIED HIM ON VISIT TO FIGHTING FRONTS. FROM FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS, LEARNED GREECE IS FIGHTING COMMUNISTS IN FULL-SCALE ALL-OUT WAR WHICH IS MOST VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS IN HER HISTORY. TRUE TO HER TRADITION, GREECE AGAIN FIGHTS TO PRESERVE WESTERN DEMOCRATIC CIVILIZATION...
...other Pacific bases which the Navy had asked to retain at war's end, only Guam-Saipan was still active, and Guam's personnel had been halved. Adak, Leyte, Manus and Iwo had been abandoned or left in housekeeping status: Kodiak had become a minor base. Pacific fleet strength had also been sharply cut back. Three carriers and six cruisers were headed for mothballs, leaving only a handful of combat ships to guard the supply lines to the occupation forces in Japan...
Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
...Leathery Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, now living in retirement in San Francisco, was getting ready for a new assignment: running the U.N. plebiscite to find out whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan...
Last December the deal fell through. Though neither side would say why, shippers guessed that Lloyd's had wanted to keep the right to classify Japan's merchant fleet, while the A.B.S. claimed it by right of conquest. This week, in what looked like an attempt to freeze out the U.S. firm completely, Lloyd's merged with the British Corporation Register. Thus Lloyd's took over classification of virtually all ships that fly the British flag, and a good percentage of ships of other nations...