Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electric, now building the first-stage rocket motor for the Vanguard satellite project, are hurrying to catch up, most of the contracts so far have gone to new companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet, owned by General Tire & Rubber Co., with 1956 sales of $140 million and a $300 million to $400 million backlog, is doing equally well; it proudly boasts that...
Dusting off his old five-star uniform, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, momentarily dropped his affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
Fear Strikes Out (Paramount) rolls Frank Merriwell and Sigmund Freud into a ball and then lines it out for a solid hit. The film is based on the widely read autobiography of Jim Piersall. the fleet-footed outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who suffered an emotional collapse five years ago which almost ended his career before it began. Unlikely as it may look from the bleachers, Piersall suffered from what has been called the Laius complex.* Piersall's father (Karl Malden), according to the script, was a wild ball hawk whose wings were clipped by family responsibilities...
...archipelago, Heath took flying lessons, bought a Piper Tri-Pacer. He keeps cars at Friday Harbor and Eastsound, and a third at Bellingham, where he takes his more serious cases for hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find him in emergencies, and signal to him when he is needed. Then his British-born wife Evelyn takes the wheel and deftly maneuvers the boat...
...stay out while the fishing is good, thus build up inventories that will tide them over slack periods (the Fulhams' contribution: a method of part-thawing, preparing and refreezing the fish, which they say preserves flavor). They have offered Boston's fishermen substantial loans to modernize the fleet, and plan to revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered from seasonal surpluses, by promoting frozen packages of the cheap fish throughout the year. Last week they were investigating yet another solution to the problem of supply and demand: a commodities market in sea products, to help prevent dumping during...