Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOAC technicians hurried down from London to investigate the crash, the third fatal crash in Comet history, fishermen, rescue planes and ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet combed the water for survivors. They found none, but amid the flotsam of wreckage that floated on the Tyrrhenian Sea to mark the Comet's grave, 15 bodies were recovered. In an age of urgency and jet propulsion, the Comet's passengers had met their end as swiftly as they had pursued their goals upon earth. Said an examining surgeon: "They showed no look of terror. Death must have come without...
...company, to be known as Flying Tiger-Slick Airways, will be the world's biggest air-freight carrier, with a fleet of 60 planes, assets of about $22 million, and approximately 46% of the U.S. cargo business. Revenues of the two companies have been running at the combined rate of $36 million a year. The merger, according to Flying Tiger President Robert W. Prescott, who will run the new company, should result in the saving of some $750,000 by eliminating duplicate facilities. Said he: It is "a major step toward the creation of a strong, independent branch...
...joined the company in 1901 and was longtime boss of its British operations. East & West. Zeiss's postwar comeback started from scratch, after the U.S. occupation forces pulled back from Jena and the Russians took over. But the U.S. had managed to salvage something. It sent a fleet of trucks to Jena and moved 124 top Zeissmen into the Western zone. Under the leadership of Bauersfeld and Henrichs. they rented floor space in a Heidenheim cigar factory, .borrowed tools and lathes, hired a secretary and put her to work at a borrowed typewriter. Within a year, more than...
...fact was that Alabama was not full enough. Slender, fleet-footed Dick Moegle got away for three long touchdown runs in all, and Rice made a fourth touchdown in the final quarter on a 75-yd. sustained drive. Alabama lost to Rice, 28-6. Fiery Fullback Lewis apologized to Rice's Moegle for his moment of aberration. Dick Moegle grinned and said, "Forget it." Tommy Lewis, who wept unashamedly in the dressing room, moaned: "I don't think I'll ever get over...
...torpedoes and wheeled away, and Oldendorf opened up with his big guns. The small boys sank two enemy battleships and several destroyers, and crippled two cruisers that night; not a U.S. destroyer was lost. Oldendorf's big ships finished the job, and Vice Admiral Shima turned back, his fleet shattered...