Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler "seems more concerned with placating...
...Britain, where most foreigners find the humor as tepid as the beer, one of Fleet Street's most successful wits today is a waspish foreigner known as Vicky. As six-days-a-week political cartoonist for the Laborite Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,-696), world's biggest daily, German-born Vicky (real name: Victor Weisz) has built the largest following of any British cartoonist since David Low at his wartime peak. While he has not as yet won Low's fame, most Fleet Streeters agree that Vicky is Britain's top cartoonist...
...editorial comment on Britain's attack on Suez, Socialist Vicky was, as usual, Fleet Street's sharpest mocksman -because he saw the British as they do not like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time...
Modern scientific meteorology was founded on the telegraph, with an assist from the Crimean War. On Nov. 14, 1854, a violent storm sank key vessels of a Franco-British fleet in Balaklava harbor. At the request of the French Minister of War, the famed Astronomer Urbain Le Verrier studied the storm and reported that it could have been tracked across Europe by the new-fangled telegraph. Soon after his report sank in, most of Europe (and later the U.S.) had a telegraphic storm-warning service...
Forecast on DDay. The biggest moment for military weathermen was critical Dday, when General Eisenhower's forces crossed the Channel to land on the Normandy coast. Everything depended on the weather, which could have broken up the invasion fleet as it had the Spanish Armada, sailing in the opposite direction, 356 years before. As June 1944 approached, the weather over the Channel remained impossibly bad. Each service demanded several different kinds of weather. The airborne infantry wanted cloud-cover to shelter it from enemy fighters; the bombers wanted clear skies. Ground forces wanted cloud-cover and fairly dry soil...