Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain cop duty. Another 130,000 put on the Soviet-style uniforms of the Brown Police to become the German Red army. Equipped with Soviet tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns and other modern weapons, they were organized into combat teams and an army group: some were assigned to a fleet of 31 armed ships, others to flight training in Yak-17s Behind the "Vopos" rose the secret police, some 30,000 organized in NKVD style by a veteran (60) Red of the Spanish civil war and Moscow fraternity named Wilhelm Zaisser...
...engaged in everything from tire-recapping to coffee-roasting, from binding books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could...
Before the war, the Army and Navy relied chiefly on private tugs and barges for towing and delivery jobs. During the war they acquired their own tugboat fleet, and now, possibly to keep bureaucratic empires from shrinking, there is a $100 million expansion program under way. (One House committee witness told how the Government spent $43,369 hauling $4,368 worth of scrap iron from Alaska to California.) When the Defense Department authorized its three forces to spend $10 million a year reclaiming their scrap, the Navy's Pensacola Air Station promptly spent $25,000 on a scrap press...
...generals nevertheless were to be forgiven for feeling that the rebellion was merely an exhibition of rashness by excited colonials. The colonies, only tenuously united and notoriously ridden by rivalry, had little industry (even minor manufacturing was restricted by British policy), no military tradition, almost no military stores, no fleet, no allies, and, by European standards, no army worthy of the name. They faced the wealth and trained troops of a great military power (England sent the biggest expeditionary force in its history to America), backed by the world's greatest navy, by savage Indians, and by droves...
...Hill, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, moved into Virginia and took up quarters at Yorktown. Washington was in New England contemplating an attack on New York-the French had landed 5.000 troops (who startled Americans by rigidly re- fraining from even minor thefts) to help him, and a big French fleet was preparing to sail from the West Indies. But Washington decided almost overnight to move against Cornwallis instead. The French war vessels moved to Virginia, too, and after five weeks of fast marching, Washington laid siege to Yorktown with 16,000 French and Continental soldiers. Cornwallis had gone to earth between...