Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval aviator. Rear Admiral John Smith Thach, 52, last week drew a unique assignment: goblin hunting. In Navy parlance, goblins are unidentified submarines. By Navy observation, goblins currently spotted on an average of once a week off the Atlantic coast are nosy members of a Russian submarine fleet that numbers almost 500 boats, and is already ten times the size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles estimates that ten missile-carrying subs could destroy...
...Djakarta, a fleet of ten Russian freighters and tankers arrived from Vladivostok and was turned over to Sukarno under the terms of a recent $100 million...
Soviet loan. Russia's Ambassador Dmitry Zhukov placidly announced that the Soviet crews would stay on board to help Indonesians navigate and maintain the ships. In Bukittinggi, rebel Premier Sjaf-ruddin charged that the Russian fleet was loaded with arms, and cried: "If Sukarno can have Russian crews, why can't we have American pilots...
Dangers in Defense. No. 876's unarmed atomic bomb nonetheless went off thunderously around the world, and nowhere more so than in London, where Socialists, pacifists and many Fleet Street editors latched on to a new gimmick for their campaign against U.S. Air Force nuclear patrols over Britain (see FOREIGN
...occasion was one to stir the hearts of all the Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle...