Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to prosecute some big tax-delinquency cases, including a $2,400,000 one against one of his friends, a North Carolina taxi-fleet operator...
...Notable exceptions: Admiral Claude C. Bloch, who at 61, stepped down from his four-star job as chief of the U.S. Fleet to serve as a two-star admiral under his former subordinate, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, at Pearl Harbor; General Frank M. Andrews, who dropped from major general to a colonelcy after a four-year tour of staff duty at Air Force headquarters in 1939, stayed on, and became a lieutenant general in 1941, two years before his death in a plane crash...
...Quantico, Va. In 1947 was called to Washington, in line for the job of Commandant with his friend, Clifton Gates. Gates, also the possessor of a topflight record, got the four stars on seniority. Shepherd, said the President, would have another crack at it. Shepherd became boss of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific in June 1950. Old-line Marine officers consider him a "schools" man, versatile, able, grimly serious, obsessed with combat training. "Life under General Shepherd," said a Marine officer last week, "is going to be very uncomplicated. All he's going to stress is combat...
...company: 1) pay income taxes equal to those paid by corporations (up to 43%); 2) turn over to the government the country's major ports, which Unifruit built and operates; 3) cut freight rates on the rail network it controls and on the ships of the "Great White Fleet"; and 4) pay higher prices for bananas it buys from independent Guatemalan producers...
...game of the week was Princeton v. Cornel-Ivy League, effete East and all. Neither team had been beaten or tied. Princeton, ranked eighth in the nation, had its work cut out for it: to stop a squad of fleet backs and the deadeye passing of Cornell Quarterback Rocco Calvo, whose 61% completion record was the nation's best. Cornell, ranked No. 12, had a theoretically easier job: to concentrate on one man. But the man was triple-threat Dick Kazmaier, an All-America back last year and a veteran of Princeton's 1950 championship team...