Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wayno takes the submarine down while the pilot's wounded brother is still on deck. He wants no sympathy, he is hard as nails and would do it again if it meant saving his crew. Then he is sent out on a realty dangerous mission locate the Imperial Japanese Fleet...
...answer to the question came when Senator Styles Bridges abruptly demanded an end to the Administration's do-nothing stand. Bridges demanded that the U.S. use its fleet to support the Nationalist Chinese in an invasion of the China mainland, that it blockade Red China and bomb Red China's bases. Its allies, he added, must be summoned to supply more troops in the Far East and take the step of unequivocally declaring Red China an aggressor. Said Bridges: "Our men . . . should not be expected to battle any longer against the diplomatic odds which cripple their magnificent efforts...
Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, onetime Ambassador to Belgium and Russia, and a wealthy lawyer before he married into the Post Toasties millions in 1935, dealt with a rumor that had Washington buzzing. The rumor: Davies had just bought a fleet of seven new Cadillacs. Reached by newsmen at Tregaron, his baronial estate in Washington, Davies set the whole thing straight. Said he: "I bought four small cars to conserve gasoline. Mine is a Chrysler or Cadillac, I'm not sure which. I daresay there were several Cadillacs bought-new cars conserve gas, actually. We purchased four...
...great divide, the wives of U.S. Congressmen assumed the responsibility of electing a Mrs. De Wyss Altbee the first woman President of the United States. To President Altbee fell the painful duty of informing her all-female cabinet that the country was about to be attacked by a Russian fleet manned entirely by women. "Our Navy," said Mrs. Weller, the Secretary of the Interior, "will have to steam out immediately and destroy them!" "Who'll steam it?" groaned Mrs. Dwight, the Secretary of Agriculture...
...statement was added saying that more arms would be promptly shipped to Indo-China and the Philippines, while Formosa, on the other hand, would be neutralized behind the Seventh Fleet. Why Formosa was added, State officials now cannot readily explain. The probable answer is that someone thought the Chinese Communists could be neutralized by talking tough out of one corner of the mouth and by speaking softly out of the other. Chiang's offer of 33,000 troops for Korea was turned down on the ground that it might provoke the Chinese Communists to get into the fight. They...