Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit of those pleasures. As a dapper, rakish fin de siècle student at the Sorbonne, he got the nickname Cur Non (Why Not?) because of his debonair pursuit of food and fun. (He added the "sky" a few years later when the Czar's fine fleet came to visit France.) In 1921, already famed as a gourmet, he began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests. They're the ones...
...line. Pan Am, which expects to get the planes in 1956, also has an option to purchase seven more for delivery in 1957. As a warning to U.S. planemakers, Pan Am's President Juan Trippe added: the deal with De Havilland would "permit the acquisition of a fleet . . . [for] principal trade routes abroad if suitable American-manufactured jet transports were not available by that time...
...Japanese have almost doubled their tonnage. Japanese shipyards, which had a top prewar capacity of 800,000 tons a year, now have a capacity of 600,000 tons annually. As a result, Japan is not only keeping up with the demands for new ships for her own fleet, but is producing 18 fast tankers for foreign shippers...
Change of Course. The comeback was amazing even to the Japanese. By V-J day the U.S. had sunk 80% of Japan's merchant fleet, once the world's third biggest. left it with only one passenger liner, five ocean-going merchantmen and a few hundred overworked and battered coastal vessels. SCAP also scuttled any plans to rebuild the fleet. Under the surrender terms, Japan could build no ships for herself bigger than 5,000 tons, none of them faster than eleven knots...
...Farragut, whose classic "Damn the torpedoes!" was uttered when he sailed through the Confederate mine fields during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. The picture is a Technicolored version of some of Farragut's pre-Civil War activities when he sailed in 1823 on a U.S. mosquito fleet assigned to scuttle West Indies pirate ships...