Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Van Fleet's Eighth Army headquarters last week, an Air Force contingent from Washington-acting Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining, Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and six major generals-conferred on the air situation. Three days later some 70 U.S. Thunderjets attacked a North Korean officers'-training school near the Yalu, smashed and burned the barracks that housed 1,500 enemy cadets. When the enemy's MIGs tried to interfere, escorting U.S. Sabres shot down twelve of the Red jets. The indications were that more heavy U.N. air blows were on the schedule...
...Mark Clark's air strength. Although Washington was holding the figures under a security lid, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop estimated that "the planned reinforcement will increase the overall strength by 40%, and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage." In Korea, General Van Fleet publicly surmised that more air pressure might force the Reds to sign a truce...
...Tucker knows the social labyrinths of the South inside out, and better still, how to get them down on paper. She sketches some neat satiric passages on the relations between clergymen and vestrymen, and plots the maneuvers of her matrons with the skill of an experienced admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls is an Anna Karenina or an Emma B ovary, but all four are distinct, believable and likable. And though they come on only for bit parts, Novelist Tucker's Negroes loll and drawl a pungent counterpoint to the sly, good...
...squadron of the British fleet, entrusted to Commodore Martin, suddenly appeared in the Bay of Naples [m 1742], and threatened an immediate bombardment unless the King would engage in writing to withdraw his troops from the Spanish army, and to observe in future a strict neutrality. The Neapolitan court, wholly unprepared for the defense of the city, endeavored to elude the demand by prolonging the negotiation. But the gallant Englishman...laid his watch upon the table in his cabin, and told the negotiators that their answer must be given within the space of an hour, or that the bombardment should...
Most big lines make money only with the help of sizable government subsidies. Last year, with a $4,501,608 subsidy and a fleet of 46 moneymaking freighters, U.S. Lines earned $7,489,812. It is counting on a big subsidy boost to help pay for operating the United States...