Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their group. All these things the fishermen of Kwangtung suffered in silence. But last summer, when the Communists began to impose the cooperative system on the machinery of their trade-their boats, their carefully tended nets and their daily catches-the fishermen could tolerate no more. In September a fleet of 200 fishing junks, manned by some 1,600 refugee fisherfolk, set out from Kwangtung to find a freer life in the waters around Hong Kong...
Million-Dollar Answers. The Creole is more than a princely pleasure barge; it is also the flagship from which Niarchos directs the far-flung fleet of 48 merchantmen that carry his initial, a sprawling N, on their smokestacks. Each morning last week, while his guests still lay abed, Niarchos settled himself at a desk in his fawn-carpeted stateroom. With an unlighted Papastratos No. 1 cigarette between his lips, he pored over...
Even without this addition, there is no doubt that Niarchos has more ships afloat and abuilding than any private shipowner in the world. When the 28 new ships under construction are completed, Niarchos' fleet will total 1,976,779 deadweight tons,* five times the size of the French navy...
...early postwar years, Niarchos saw the bright future of international trade and plunged into shipping with every drachma he could scrape together while most shipowners were battening hatches to ride out an expected slump. In ten years. Niarchos has not only built his fleet-and a fortune estimated as high as $350 million-but has helped revolutionize the design, financing and operation of tankers, launching a new race of giant ships that is fast changing the economics of merchant marines the world over...
...leader of a new band of Argonauts who have given the shipping world a new term: "the Greeks," meaning the independent shipowners of whatever nationality who have sailed on the crest of the postwar shipping boom. Customarily included among "the Greeks" is Midwestern-born Daniel K. Ludwig, 58, whose fleet (estimated at 1.5 million tons) is second only to Niarchos'. Behind Ludwig presses Niarchos' brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis. 49, a flamboyant Smyrnan who, with Niarchos. bought the Monte Carlo Casino in 1954, owns some 1.3 million tons of shipping, the world's third biggest independent...