Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between, Harry Truman reluctantly said goodbye to two tired veterans who had long been hoping to move on. One was old (73), corrugated Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy-presidential chief of staff for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman-who had been ailing, and writing his war memoirs since Jan. 1. In a little ceremony at the White House, Harry Truman awarded Billy Leahy his third Distinguished Service Medal, pinned the medal with two gold stars on his beribboned jacket...
...last week the fact was indisputable: the U.S. was pulling most of its weight out of the Pacific and shifting to the Atlantic. The great Pacific battleground, which had once been dotted with Army & Navy bases, crisscrossed with the wakes and aircraft courses of the mightiest fighting fleet in history, had become a lightly patrolled frontier. Behind a defense line running through the Marianas to Okinawa, Japan and Alaska, the U.S. had retreated to its own West Coast...
...paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu, thus putting the first Stratocruiser into commercial service on the San Francisco-Honolulu eight-hour run. Next month a second plane will probably start on the New York-Bermuda run; by fall, Trippe's $30 million fleet of 20 Stratocruisers will be deployed over Pan American's global route pattern, boosting the airline's carrying capacity a huge 40%. They will further shrink a world which aviation long ago, for better or worse, made small...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, 66, British naval hero brought out of retirement by Winston Churchill for service in World War II; of coronary thrombosis; in Wells, England. Torpedo Expert Somerville was deputy commander of British naval units in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, led the British fleet into action at Oran, was skipper of famed Force H which helped keep the Mediterranean open for shipping...
Harvard, which up to last night had been a third period hockey team, shot its bolt in the first twenty seven minutes against Dartmouth and then never quite caught up to the fleet Indians...