Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 25--The United States 6th Fleet steamed to the eastern Mediterranean today in what officials described as a show of force intended to support the threatened government of Jordan...
...Surrender!" came the cry from the shore. "Never-I'll be damned first!" yelled Cushing as he dove into the river. He floated and swam downstream, stole a rowboat from a squad of Confederates who were posted near by and made his way back to the fleet...
...visitors, led by Daisuke Takaoka, conservative member of Japan's Diet, got red-carpet treatment all the way. General Lemnitzer himself flew down with them. Tokyo, genially wined and dined them at the plush Ryukyus Command Officers' Club. Scooting about the island in a fleet of khaki-colored Chevrolets escorted by white-helmeted MPs. the Japanese talked with everyone from the Communist mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press...
Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...
...where she hopes to develop a "second generation" of rockets while receiving the presently less-advanced U.S. weapons already in production. They hope that this ground-to-air missile system will eventually replace R.A.F. manned fighters. On the seas, carrier task forces supported by light cruisers will comprise the fleet as the heavy cruisers are retired to the scrap pile...