Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fair Prospects. "Sure there's plenty of international competition," says Real-Aerovias President Linneu Gomes, "but we can beat it. We offer speed, service, safety and new planes." Real has built its fleet to 120 (v. Panagra's 19), and most of the other lines have big plans. The state-owned Argentine Airline is wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets...
...only chief of state to attend was Liberia's President William V.S. Tubman, who had taken over the entire fleet (two DC-3s) of the Liberian National Airways to airlift himself, his party and his 3,500 Ibs. of luggage (including a portable flagpole). By the time the Moroccan Foreign Minister arrived that night, Accra had a full house. It was a little disappointing that only one chief of state had shown, but with the exception of South Africa-which would not come unless colonial powers were invited-all of Africa's independent states, Arab and black, were...
...windswept Wellington (pop. 122,400), the seaport capital of New Zealand, mothers hurried their daughters off the streets, hotels and pubs increased their liquor stocks, restaurants and roadhouses and easy women prepared for stirring times. Steaming into port was the factory ship, Slava, and a fleet of 25 whalers. Aboard were 1,060 officers and men, back from eight months of solitude and hard work in the Antarctic with a catch of 14,000 whales and just over $160,000 in spending money. Wellingtonians nervously awaited the first landing party...
...Wellington's druggists, for the Red sailors swept the shelves bare of laxatives, and even bought up patent medicine that had been gathering dust for years. At week's end the Russians went back to their ships laden like housewives returning from a bargain sale, and the fleet steamed out, headed for Odessa and home...
...fleet Cornell attackmen relied on a faking, hard-charging offense, as shown by the fact that three of their seven goals were unassisted. The varsity attempted to work the ball deliberately around the crease and find a man free out in front...