Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet's views directly oppose those of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey who stated at the end of January that he was opposed to proposals for lengthening the draft requirement from 24 to 36 months...
General James A. Van Fleet said yesterday to the House Armed Services Committee that he feels the present two-year draft period should be extended six or 12 months...
...Korea," Van Fleet told the congressmen, but "it must be a military victory." The only way to achieve such a victory, he continued, is to give our soldiers "a little more of what it takes to fight . . . battle training...
Last week he slipped into Bremen from Istanbul and in waterfront bars rounded up the 40 Turkish crewmen of the Raman, an aged (1917), U.S.-built tanker of 7,800 tons which had found its way into Mardin's small merchant fleet. Five of the Turks sidled on to a German tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with...
...culture. So in addition to the social graces, the club offers French, homemaking and stenography. If a girl is particularly ambitious, she may-unless Miss Ellison rules to the contrary-take interior decorating, philosophy, dressmaking, mathematics, art, Latin. She will also get such extracurricular broadening as a visit to Fleet Street, a day at the Derby, a tour of a factory, watching the ceremony of Trooping the Color. She may also sell programs at charity bazaars, learn to care for her skin, study the art of conversation...