Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French forces against a large Communist rebel army (see below). The most ominous rumblings last week came, however, from the vicinity of Formosa (see below). U.S. headquarters in Tokyo thought that the Reds might throw a feint at Formosa in an effort to draw fire from the U.S. Seventh Fleet; that would give Red China's Mao Tse-tung a perfect excuse (if he wanted one) to throw the Chinese Red army into the war on the side of his North Korean friends...
...began with all the festivity of a luxury liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...
...broad daylight, the fleet steamed through the Shimonoseki Straits and cut into the Japan Sea, quite obviously bound for Korea. By sunset of the first day out, the festivities were on the wane. Rear Admiral James H. Doyle ordered blackout conditions set on all ships. Below decks...
Hardtack. But U.S. shipping was far from ready for a graver emergency. The nation's shipyards have not completed a single ocean-going passenger or cargo-passenger vessel in the last 23 months. As a result, the U.S. merchant fleet is slipping into middle age (the average ship is eight years old), and the once-mighty U.S. shipbuilding industry is growing skeleton-thin on hardtack. With just 19 ocean-going ships under construction last week, the U.S. has dropped to ninth place among the nations of the world in tonnage of new ships on order; even conquered Japan...
...disrupting civilian airline schedules. But if the airlines did have to supply more planes later, they were a lot better prepared than when the Air Transport Command called them for World War II. U.S. commercial airlines now boast a total of 1,660 transport planes, almost quadruple the 1941 fleet...