Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first "magazine of world astronautics" is whooshing off the presses this week. Its title: Missiles and Rockets. As the latest in a fleet of eight air-age trade journals launched by American Aviation's chubby, ruddy Editor-Publisher Wayne Parrish, 49, the magazine will take off with a burst of specialized stories; e.g., a roundup on Russian rocket development, a story of the Army's rush to beat the Navy into space with a satellite...
Robinson fouled one, took a ball and then lashed a line drive into left field. Slaughter raced for the ball which sailed over his head and rolled away as fleet Junior Gilliam scored...
...facts." "When [the President] pointed with satisfaction to 'the free nation of Viet Nam' he left out the fact that half of that nation . . . has been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
Last week's crash was not expected to slow the buildup of the nation's B-52 fleet to 600-900 planes by 1958. Nor did the grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
...warmed up on the tarmac of Casablanca's airport. A fleet of black Citroëns prowled determinedly through the French quarters of Casablanca, Rabat, Meknés and Fez picking up passengers for the flight. All through the small hours one morning last week agents of Morocco's new secret police force knocked at door after door and curtly informed sleepy French colons to get dressed; they were to be expelled from Morocco immediately...