Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ride the last five miles to Georgetown. Their triumphal entry into the city, however, was just beginning. As the barge sloshed down the canal, hundreds of men, women & children hustled along the banks exchanging greetings with the expedition. Other well-wishers called greetings from overhead bridges. The escorting fleet of canoes grew. Automobiles jammed up along a parallel roadway...
...Long Live the Revolution!" Worried, Naguib increased his bodyguard. The tide had set against him. Officers began a sit-down strike in barracks; police held a meeting and vowed they would not police Naguib's election; fleet units hoisted anchor and sailed from Alexandria, announcing that they would not return unless the R.C.C. agreed to stay in power. Mobs roamed the streets calling: "Long live the revolution!" The man they shouted for: Colonel Abdel Nasser...
...yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian airplane. When he has nothing else to do (such as dropping...
...intends to remain, one of the Big Three atomic powers. In a White Paper presented to the House of Commons, Defense Minister Lord Alexander announced that British-made atomic weapons, including atomic bombs, are being delivered to the British forces, and that the Royal Air Force is building a fleet of strategic bombers, "capable of using the atomic weapon to the fullest extent...
...University of Athens before entering a small family flour-milling company that imported grain from Argentina. Noticing that most Greek millers, like his family, imported their grain in small lots, Niarchos soon organized import pools and went into the shipping business to handle the trade. He built up a fleet of six ships, turned them over to the Allies during the war, and put in a tour of North Atlantic destroyer duty with the Greek navy. At war's end, with half his fleet sunk, Niarchos started building up a tanker fleet, was able to finance the building...