Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five months after Pearl Harbor, Dillon went on active Navy duty as an ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently...
...superiority is pointless over heavy forests in a Caribbean filibuster. Far more valuable to Trujillo are 1) his efficient small-arms plant in his native city of San Cristobal, and 2) the Rio agreement of 1947, which obliges the U.S. and its hemispheric neighbors to halt any invasion fleet bent on disturbing the peace...
...present students-his ambition took firm root. To its agriculture and liberal arts offerings, the university has added faculties of law, medicine, engineering and economics. Last fall the university opened a new laboratory for nuclear physics. It is also bustlingly commercial, with two experimental farms, a model fishing fleet, a profitmaking cannery...
...freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...
...varsity's zone was unable to handle B.C.'s single-post offense during most of the first half, and the Crimson fast break usually failed to outrace the fleet B.C. guards...