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Word: fleetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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String-pulling in Washington and Oregon ended the threat to the Toon's use of the mails as swiftly as it had begun, however, when "Big Bob" Handyman, postman, succumbed to an attack from a winged fleet of Ibismen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Office Clears 'Poonsters' Second 'New Yorker' Parody | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

...report, all wrapped up in a film, took the viewers (including many Union stockholders, who got letters well in advance) across oilfields, up to the tops of derricks, through refinery gates and aboard the company's seven-tanker fleet. Now & again the camera veered back into a board room and focused on Union Oil Co. of California's President Reese Hale Taylor. He gave an item-by-item explanation of the company's annual financial report, the first ever televised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Sing Out the News | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...three dinghy fleet, directed by Commodore Pete Putnam, will skud the white water against Yale in the M.I.T. basin today in the semi-annual Crimson-Eli regatta. Pete Duble ard Charles MacElory will captain the other two crafts for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Race Yale | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

Some London newsmen, foregathered in a Fleet Street pub one day last week, got talking about the great news stories still to be written. Pretty soon they had a list. Their list, in order of importance, as reported by Overseas News Agency: 1) the discovery of Hitler alive, and an exclusive interview with him; 2) an exclusive description of the first scientific creation of living matter with a free will of its own; 3) coverage of the first journey beyond the earth, either to the moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Stories | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Hope-Lined Clouds | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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