Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, Philip Wright and John Noble are both pseudonyms for a benign, middle-aged (53) troubleshooter with a reassuringly ecclesiastical presence and a real-life surname that rhymes with his stock in trade: Leslie Arthur Burt Hubble, otherwise known to Fleet Street colleagues as "The Bishop...
...Hubble was first assigned to grapple with readers' problems in wartime, when he ran a serviceman's gripe column in the armed-forces paper, Union Jack. So successful was the column that at war's end, when the Union Jack's editor, a bright young Fleet Streeter named Hugh Cudlipp (now editorial director for the Mirror group) returned as editor of the Pictorial, he persuaded Hubble to run the readers' service bureau for the Mirror and Pictorial. Hubble's eye for a good story soon turned the bureau into one of the papers...
...islanders' return. It was to include brand new modern houses with heat-resistant, rainproof aluminum roofs, a new school, a new hospital, a church, a radio station, scientifically planted groves of coconut designed for maximum copra production, plantations of papaya and breadfruit seedlings, and a whole new fleet of canoes for the local fishermen...
...Asian influenza, sweeping around the world (TIME, June 24), broke out in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...
...City should do even better than the forecasts. Last year some 30 million Americans went down to the sea in 5,971,000 powerboats and sailboats, spent $1.25 billion on their hobby; this year they will spend $1.5 billion, and add another 500,000 craft to the U.S. pleasure fleet. From Maine to California's Newport-Balboa harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across...