Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's words did not still another general. James A. Van Fleet. At week's end he subscribed to Clark's views about the Russians. Said Van Fleet: "We ought to kick them...
...June 1815, the British brigantine Nautilus surrendered to the American sloop-of-war Peacock after a battle in the Sunda Strait. In the days of relatively unsinkable wooden ships, captures were frequent. Perhaps the most remarkable of such achievements was that of French hussars who discovered a Dutch fleet helplessly frozen in at Texel in January 1795, and captured it by a cavalry charge across...
...near bankruptcy, in a plan to provide cheap vacation tours. His Hotel Plan, which offered eight-day, all-expense holidays for as little as $45, caught on quickly, bailed the hotels out, and last year grossed $6,000,000. In 1951 the Migros cooperative organized "Minitax," which runs a fleet of small blue taxis in Zurich, Lucerne, Lausanne and Geneva, charges fares 30% lower than usual rates. Last summer Migros bought the Turissia sewing-machine factory, cut prices about 13% and has since doubled output. Migros also provides evening schools for adults, runs a book club with 37,000 members...
...Fleet Streeters guessed that the aging (75), still energetic Beaver was simply arranging his estate to reduce the inheritance tax. He would actually keep control of the papers through stock held by his ' son. Max Aitken, 44, and as chairman of the new Beaverbrook Foundation. Said the London Daily Mirror's William ("Cassandra") Connor: "Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe...
BOAC is buying eight used Boeing Stratocruisers and seven used Lockheed Constellations to replace its grounded fleet of De Havilland Comets. Newest clue to the cause of the Comet's trouble: pressure tests on a Comet fuselage reportedly caused it to split along one side, indicating that it will have to be strengthened to stand flights...