Word: fleetly
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...more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew. Roosevelt astonished...
What T.R. now did was the greatest single act of his presidency. He sent the U.S. fleet around the world. T.R. did it to show Japan, and Europe as well, that the U.S. was not only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and deter war anywhere. He did it to show the people of the U.S. that from then on out the U.S. was part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers...
...French small arms, apparently supplied by the Syrians, whose army has been recently re-equipped with up-to-date Czech weapons. Both Egypt and Syria, say French intelligence officers, ship their lethal gifts to the Libyan port of Tripoli, where they are picked up by a fleet of Mercedes trucks maintained by the F.L.N. From Tripoli the guns are trucked along the main coastal highway to Tunis...
While British newspapers pull in their belts, women's magazines are popping out of their girdles. On Fleet Street last week the national dailies smarted under circulation losses totaling more than 1,000,000 a day since they boosted prices to tuppence ha'penny (3?) last October. Sunday papers and general-circulation magazines dropped 4,000,000 weekly in the same period. By contrast. Britain's women's magazines are faring better than ever...
...doctors" to out-of-the-way sites around the U.S. It has found that one man in a light plane can do the work of eight in cars or aboard boats, and the time saved often means keeping a valuable well from being wrecked. Magcobar's fleet: 17 planes, mostly float-equipped, which flew 7,200 hours last year at a cost of $144,000, far less than the business they brought...