Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue together with a polite request for his signature from one of our subscribers who has patiently assembled a collection of nearly 300 autographed TIME covers during the last six years. She is Pierrette Anne Towers, wife of Admiral John Towers, who became Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and Pacific Ocean Areas...
When a fare in Leon Werline's hack left his wallet behind, Werline drove back and found him. From Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Army veteran Werline got a $20 reward, a couple of drinks, and a citation: "Not for his honesty but for the fact that he is a veteran of the horrible war we have had, God bless him and I thank...
Died. William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, 63, onetime "king of the bootleggers," who in Prohibition days commanded a fleet of 20 rum-runners, controlled the entry of liquor into New York Harbor; of a heart attack; in Belle Harbor, Queens. After spending "a little vacation" in Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary (he was convicted of bootlegging in 1926), he tried to rebuild his crumbled fortune through sports promoting, bought the N.Y. Americans hockey team, introduced professional hockey to Manhattan, headed Miami's famed Gables Racing Association...
...suggests-expanding the testimony he had already given before the congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee-was the banner day for U.S. naval stupidity. Eight years before, in 1933, elaborate Pacific maneuvers known as Fleet Problem 14 had been performed. Their underlying assumption: that an enemy would strike with carrier-based planes at a U.S. naval base. Yet "at Pearl Harbor, at the moment of the most intense Pacific crisis in 1941, we repeated the very conditions of Fleet Problem...
...awards of a sort. General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a month's leave of absence-his first in eleven years, except for one week last July and two days last May. He would spend it in Miami, getting hospital treatment for bursitis (inflammation) in the shoulder. And Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 64, who had long wanted it, was finally allowed to be "relieved of active participation in the Navy."** The dog-jawed Pacific hero, recovering in a Manhattan hospital after a hernia operation, was not retired, because fleet admirals are just not retired; officially he remained...