Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade grounds at Washington's Fort McNair last week, with ruffles & flourishes, a 17-gun salute and a review of the troops, the U.S. Army marked the retirement of General James Alward Van Fleet, But Old Soldier Van Fleet 61, on the inactive list after 38 years of service including 22 months as Eighth Army commander in Korea, was not yet ready to fade away. The morning after the ceremonies, he went back to the Capitol Hill firing line and expanded on his earlier testimony (TIME, March 16 et seg.) about the Eighth Army's "serious shortage...
Operation Stopped. Disturbed by Van Fleet's revelations last month, the Senate Armed Services Committee formed a special five-member subcommittee, headed by Maine's able Margaret Chase Smith, to spotlight "the officials and conditions responsible for the shortages." At the subcommittee's first hearing last week, Van Fleet told the Senators that in June' 1951 he "recommended to General Ridgway, who was then the Far East commander, that we follow [our May counteroffensive] with an amphibious landing on the east coast, and had such an operation well prepared for execution. And that operation was stopped...
Point Barrow is surrounded by treacherous ice flows. In 1856 a New England whaling fleet was lost at Barrow. Former explorations at Barrow have been hampered by the difficulty in approaching the area. Before the airport was built, the last expedition to the Point, which was made during the 1930's, had to spend the winter there, waiting for a ship to return for them after the ice melted...
General James A. Van Fleet was getting the feel of civilian life again. After a visit to his orange grove in Auburndale, Fla., where he sampled this year's crop, he took his wife, daughter-in-law and little grandson, James Van Fleet III, on a visit near the town of Gruver in the Texas Panhandle. His host: former Sergeant Nick Holt, ,his driver and bodyguard in Korea. His entertainment: Texas-style coyote hunting by car and airplane...
...week's end, Pioneer's dust storm had about blown itself out. It agreed to sell its 2-0-2s and buy back a fleet of DC-3s. Said President Smith: "There are some things you do because you want to, and other things you do because you have to. This comes in the latter category...