Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles at 450 m.p.h. speed. Instead of receiving a big contract, Douglas may in the end produce only a few of the planes. But it will still have a heavy backlog of orders for Navy planes and guided missiles, besides $600 million on the books for a fleet of 122 DC-8 jet transports for U.S. and foreign airlines...
...into South Bay, has long been the hub of New England's fishing industry, once the most prosperous branch of U.S. commercial fishing. In recent years the pier has also become a symbol of the industry's steady decline. Since World War II, Boston's trawler fleet has dropped from 140 to 79, its once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry...
...Safeway and other chains to retail their "4 Fishermen" products, despite their tongue-twisting and somewhat exaggerated slogan, "Frozen Fish Are Fresher Than Fresh Fish." In 1953 they were among the first to produce and market the highly popular fish sticks. Today they lease their own fishing fleet, have packing plants in Maine, Nova Scotia and California...
...that the antiquated fish pier, and its way of doing business, would have to be modernized if the Boston fishing industry was to survive. They quietly began buying stock in the pier, and, with two-thirds of the-stock in their hands, became landlords to Boston's fishing fleet, and launched a long-term improvement program...
Boston's fishing fleet has steadily resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...