Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
Early last week, under cover of night, a fleet of Red junks crossed the channel southwest of Hoihow. A few thousand invaders disembarked. From jungle hideouts in the island's craggy interior, Red guerrillas (30,000 strong) moved down to a junction with their comrades on the beaches...
...Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh, on duty with the British Fleet at Malta. In the midst of the festivities, the party almost broke up when planes from the U.S. carrier Midway started a live-bombing practice raid on a nearby island...
Last week, White sent both groups touring, at a cost of more than $50,000 to the company. He rented a fleet of Hawaiian Airlines' DC-35 and started shuttling the cannery workers to Lanai, the plantation workers to Oahu. Both had a day's inspection trip, plus banquets, entertainment and pay. Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery's machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: "I never knew such things existed...
White reached third on a single, a sacrifice, and an infield out, and the fleet infielder took advantage of Dick Shellenbach's long wind-up to get a substantial lead. Shellenbach, who relieved starter Jim O'Neill after White's single, attempted to nick the batter when he saw White tearing down the base-line and the Crusaders argued that Charlie Walsh had been hit. Had Shellenbach succeeded, the ball would have been dead and White forced back to third...