Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head the new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, Truman named an old war horse and respected citizen, retired Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, whose most recent public assignment was U.N. administrator for the abortive Kashmir plebiscite. The other members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman...
...something of pity that Boston college doesn't have three 52 second quarter millers to match with its fleet anchor man, Irv Howe, who won the accollade of the evening by turning in a 49.3 leg Saturday night at the Garden's Knights of Columbus meet. A half hour later Harvard's Ronnie Berman received a slightly milder ovation for anchoring the Crimson to a half-step win over-come a 15-yard deficit and catch Yale's Rollie Sultze and Dartmouth's Dave Krivitzky to do it. His time...
...green and cream-colored buses that went into service in Chicago last week looked like any other buseson the outside. But their mechanical innards were different. Instead of running on gasoline, they ran on propane gas, a petroleum distillate. They were the first of a new fleet of 500 ordered by Chicago's Transit Authority from Twin Coach Co. of Kent, Ohio. The fleet, largest of its kind in the U.S., marked the fast progress of the propane-propelled revolution in engine fuels...
...only recently has propane begun to eat into the gasoline market in a sizable way. About 20 cities, including San Antonio, Orlando, Fla. and Winnipeg, Canada, have recently added propane buses to their transit systems. Three months ago Milwaukee's Boynton Cab Co. began converting its 279-cab fleet to propane, the first cab company to do so. With its new fleet Chicago hopes to save up to 2? a mile in operating expenses...
Cervantes soon found himself well started along the road to military adventure. On Oct. 7, 1571, Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...