Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer camps, oil leases, a cattle farm, intricate real-estate deals, and various trucking ventures in which he got generous help from trucking-company owners with whom he negotiated as a labor leader. The most profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor of the company. Commercial Carriers then set up Test Fleet, transferred, all the stock...
Implicit in Carter's phony scoop was the real cause of Fleet Street's wrath at De Gaulle: his insistence on regarding West Germany, rather than Britain, as his closest ally. Adenauer and De Gaulle, screamed the Daily Herald, are "the terrible twins . . . two stubborn, jealous, ambitious and misguided old men, determined to assert power and authority in Western Europe...
...government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
Craggy Konrad Adenauer-whom London Daily Mirror Columnist "Cassandra" (William Connor) once accused of demonstrating that Europe's German "problem child is still reaching for his flick knife"-has been a target of Fleet Street snarls for months. What had suddenly turned the snarls into a shrill chorus of rage was President Eisenhower's approaching tour of Western Europe's capitals and a surge of British fear that Adenauer would somehow persuade Ike "to keep the cold war alive." To the Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved...
...Died. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, 76, World War II hero (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...