Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leftist leanings of himself and his wife Edwina. When the first rumor of his new appointment leaked out some months ago, Lord Beaverbrook protested in his Sunday Express: "If it is offered he should refuse it." But, as last Viceroy of British India, as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and lately as head of all NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean, Earl Mountbatten has shown himself an able officer. Last week, even Beaverbrook's Sunday Express was forced to admit: "There can be no objection to his naval record...
TANKER TRADE-IN program of the Maritime Administration (TIME, Oct. 11) is beginning to work. Esso, which operates a fleet of 50 tankers, will trade in five World War II ships for $5,000,000, which it will then apply toward two new tankers worth $22 million. Cities Service and Texas Co. are also dickering with the Government to trade in at least seven other outmoded tankers...
SHIPBUILDING will get more help from the U.S. Navy, which has given Bethlehem Steel's Quincy, Mass, shipyard a contract to design a faster, larger (15,000 tons) supply ship that can keep pace with the faster U.S battle fleet...
...fitness reports and training procedures, he lived only for naval aviation. As the first U.S. Navy officer assigned to command flying operations from the deck of a ship (the converted collier Langley), Pete Mitscher wrote the book on seaborne air power. And as tactical commander of the Pacific Fleet's fast carrier task forces in World War II, Mitscher the mediocre became Mitscher the magnificent...
...command decisions were consistently and uncannily right. If he erred, it was in not pressing his views upon his superiors, Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, in the great battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf-both occasions when too much of the Japanese fleet got away. In all naval war there has been no bolder or more dramatic decision than Mitscher's, in the Philippine Sea, to violate the hallowed blackout rule and light up the fleet like Coney Island to help homing flyers find their carriers. Characteristically, he took this crushing responsibility with only...