Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need," Marshall told King Paul, "is a supreme commander with enough gumption to lay down the law. You've got the right man here-Papagos." In six months Commander in Chief Papagos, with U.S. arms aid and the friendly advice of a U.S. team under General James Van Fleet, had licked the Communists...
...parade ground of the Korean Military Academy just outside Seoul, President Syngman Rhee and General (ret.) James Van Fleet climbed into a black jeep for a special review of the cadet corps. For both men it was a big day; both had worked hard for it, both had waited for it eagerly. There, on a site that lay along Van Fleet's "Golden Line" the location of what was to be 1951's last-ditch stand against the Communists -the four-year-old academy last week graduated its first class. Guns boomed, the band blared, sabers flashed...
...officers had been trained with the Japanese. Some had served with the Chinese Nationalists, a few had been taught by German military advisers, still others had gone to the U.S. or had taken short R.O.T.C. courses. In 1951, with $500 out of his own pocket. Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet started the drive for a permanent academy...
...merchant-ship construction program ever planned by a private U.S. steamship line was launched last week. Moore-McCormack Lines signed an agreement with the Federal Maritime Board to build 33 ships at a cost of $313 million. By the late 1960s, Moore-McCormack will almost completely replace its present fleet of 35 vessels. To pay the bill, the Government will put up about one-third of the money, roughly the difference in costs between U.S. and foreign shipyards. Among the new ships: two 18,200-ton 553-passenger cargo liners, to cost $24,444,181 apiece, which will replace...
...Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik had been singing the blues. To hear him tell it, Penn State's Nittany Lions would gobble his hamstrung team in a single gulp. His backfield, if he could field one at all. would be an impromptu joke. Joe Cygler, Army's fleet left halfback, was out for the season with a snapped ankle. Dick Murtland, another halfback, was laid up with a charley horse. Bob Kyasky, the fastest back of all, was nursing a bad knee. Mike Zeigler had run afoul of Army discipline and was finished with 'football. Don Holleder...