Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, General James A. Van Fleet, who directed the U.S. military aid for Greece (1948-50), was selected to lead Greece's Independence Day parade up Fifth Avenue. In religious salute, the general paused to kiss the ring of Archbishop Michael, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America...
...Colossal . . . terrifying . . . incomprehensible . . . ridiculous," said Senator Harry Byrd during last week's Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearings on the ammunition shortage. He was speaking of the Pentagon system. Continuing the investigation touched off last month (TIME, March 16 et seq.) by former Eighth Army Commander James A. Van Fleet, the subcommittee heard about "the system" from top Defense Department officials and ex-officials. Harry Byrd, who did most of the questioning, kept trying to pin responsibility to individuals, but after a long day's questioning, he growled: "We have not got a single name yet of anybody...
...fists. He quit his native Norway at 15 to go to sea in sailing vessels, got into tankers just as Spindletop and the Auto Age gave the U.S. oil industry its biggest boost. He became a tanker captain for _ the fledgling Texas Co., later built up its tanker fleet and ran Texaco's overseas sales. He became chairman of the board in 1935 arid made deals all over the world to increase Texaco's own oil production...
From the Pentagon floated rumors that high Army brass was sharpening long knives for a counterattack on Van Fleet. The brass would find that he was well entrenched on Capitol Hill. One Senator wrote to Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens asking that Van Fleet be kept on active duty "because the country needs him." And Styles Bridges was so taken with Van Fleet that he offered him a job as military advisor to his Appropriations committee. Van Fleet promised to think it over...
Battles Promised. Richards' outfield is strong-armed and fast, the equal, defensively, of any outfield in baseball. It has fleet-footed Jim Rivera in center, Orestes ("Minnie") Minoso, league base-stealing champ (22) in left, Sam Mele (.259 and 69 runs batted in) in right. Catcher Sherm