Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner the British and French left the sooner the U.N. could get on with its other avowed task in Egypt, clearing the Suez Canal. Late last week the first of a fleet of Dutch and Danish salvage vessels began to move toward Egypt. To handle financing of the estimated $40 million clearance operations, Hammarskjold called on Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. To oversee technical operations, he drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story...
Katzenbach doubted that the Secretary's remarks on transport facilities were motivated by the Reporter article, as A1 Newman, managing editor of the magazine, implied last week. Katzenbach revealed that several representatives from the Civil Reserve Air Fleet convinced him last week that the transport situation is really more critical than he had believed...
...were other accomplishments. She negotiated the NATO status-of-forces agreement, which gives the Western forces a firm military anchor in Italy. And she coordinated diplomatic overseas planning for the potentially hazardous-but successful-evacuation of some 2,800 Americans from the Middle East, principally by the U.S. Sixth Fleet under Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown...
...corps of French savants whom Napoleon takes along to bring civilization to the benighted Arabs.) Author McKenney handles battles with as much relish as bundling. The rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives Author McKenney some of her best pages...
...transport an army airborne division would require the use of "practically the whole of the available Air Force transport capability," Katzenbach writes. The author also holds that it would take 1,800 man-weeks to convert enough aircraft to cargo planes in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, planes set aside by airline companies for military emergencies...