Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had Corregidor. The U.S. fleet, though it had won a strategic edge, had been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch...
...vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet, and win the war quickly before U.S. industrial might could be brought to bear. "In the last analysis," he argued, "the success or failure of our entire strategy in the Pacific will be determined by whether or not we succeed in destroying the U.S. fleet, more particularly its carrier forces...
Though Britain's 122 daily newspapers enjoy the world's highest per-capita circulation, and will pull in a record $560 million in advertising this year, pessimism shrouded much of Fleet Street this week like an out-of-season pea-souper. Reasons: sapped by soaring costs and plummeting readership, Britain's fourth and fifth biggest dailies, the Labor-owned Daily Herald (circ. 1,653,997) and the Independent-Liberal News Chronicle (1,441,438), were desperately discussing a marriage of convenience; three smaller newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone...
...Fleet Street Crisis," as it came to be called, spread across the front pages of the newspapers, called forth lead editorials in the prestigious (and prosperous) London Times and Manchester Guardian, and stirred a five-hour House of Commons debate in which the press was alternately consoled for its economic ills and cuffed for its sensationalism...
...precise cause of the "crisis" was elusive; its depth and seriousness were matters of debate. Francis Williams, Fleet Street's most astute observer, even went so far as to say: "This is not a crisis of one industry. What is involved is the whole position of the press as a social force in Britain: a major threat to principles that are as vital to the process of democracy as is the freedom of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and the right of association...