Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHIPPING BOOM is steaming along so briskly that lines do not have enough vessels to handle all new business. Maritime Board has requests from 15 companies to release total of 81 ships from Government-owned reserve fleet for emergency charter service...
Last week C. V. was in full production on an initial $275 million (about 275 planes) production order, expects to deliver the first operational Crusaders to fleet units by the end of this year. C. V. hopes it is just the first of many orders, that its plane will be a Navy front-line day fighter for at least five years...
...Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty, wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches...
...PLANES are being offered to India at bargain prices in an effort to crack the air-transport market there. Indian Airlines, which wants to replace its fleet of obsolete U.S. and British planes, has an offer of twin-engine Ilyushin transports at about $200,000 apiece, with delivery promised within a year v. Western delivery schedules of two to three years for planes that cost upwards...
...exodus from Cambridge was accomplished with a maximum of confusion as a fleet of chartered buses rumbled the Class to Manchester by the cold blue sea for a day at one of New England's finest country clubs...