Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this month, when General James A. Van Fleet shocked the Senate Armed Services Committee into an investigation of the U.S. Army's ammunition shortage (TIME. March 16 et seq.), the security-minded Senators heard much of his testimony in closed session. Last week the committee released a censored version of the former Eighth Army commander's secret testimony-testimony which made it clear that the ammunition shortage was only one of many U.S. blunders in Korea. Said Van Fleet...
After a brief shudder, British naval pride quickly resumed its steady course. "Morale, training, and a mighty tradition of seamanship, these still matter much more than numbers," gruffed London's Evening News. And Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express regarded the Soviet navy with a condescending eye: "This fleet is not manned by a race of seamen...
When Americans criticize the British press, Fleet Streeters often angrily view it as some kind of special American "prejudice." But last week the British press was keelhauled by one of its own members: the Manchester Guardian's U.S correspondent, Alistair Cooke. Delivering a Joseph Medill Patterson journalism lecture at Fordham University, Cooke pointed out that the British press has deteriorated a great deal since the late 19th century, when newspapers tried to be "a guide to the good life...
Last week, after all the testimony was in, the members of the Armed Services Committee unanimously agreed that General Van Fleet's charges had been borne out. The committee's most disturbing conclusion: "The shortages of ammunition substantially restricted the action of our troops [in Korea] and endangered our defense lines...
...single one on newsstands. Nor do the seven McGraw-Hill bureaus and 46 part-time correspondents around the world cover the breaking news like other correspondents. In Korea, McGraw-Hill reporters pay little attention to battles; they are more interested in the performance of trucks and jeeps for Fleet Owner, or of airplanes, for Aviation Week. Covering the recent European floods for Engineering News-Record, McGraw-Hill correspondents left the human toll to other reporters, instead filed detailed stories on dike construction and how future floods could be prevented...