Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made Bauman sales vice president. Together the two men hiked White's sales from $20 million to $180 million. Bauman traveled nearly 2,000,000 miles for the company, today is on first-name terms with some 5,000 of White's 25,000 fleet owners and operators...
...aircraft industry, Frederick Brant Rentschler was "Mr. Horsepower." His entire life was devoted to one consuming passion: making bigger, better, more powerful airplane engines to help give the U.S. an Air Force and commercial fleet second to none. In the pursuit Fred Rentschler built United Aircraft Corp. into one of the world's biggest producers of engines (Pratt & Whitney) as well as propellers (Hamilton Standard) and helicopters (Sikorsky). Cool and shrewd, with a mind that ticked with the same precision as his beloved engines, he was never afraid to be called wrong if he thought he was right...
After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand to his memoirs. Fleet Street, which has spiced many a grey Sunday with the death-cell memoirs of murder ers, bid eagerly for the chance to take their readers right into the execution chamber. The winner: Lord Kemsley's Sunday Empire News (circ. 1,961,230), which paid a reported ?40,000 ($112,000) for Pierrepoint's own story...
...Empire News series was such a coup in sensation-hungry Fleet Street that the Sunday Dispatch tried to run neck and neck by publishing installments from the diary of a second-string hangman named William Willis. But Pierrepoint was so far out ahead that the Dispatch had to fall back on a new serial called "Liana-the Blonde from the Jungle...
Worried over Wives. Four years away from the heady 1952 Olympic triumph at Meilahti Gulf, Finland, the fine rhythm and rugged power of champions were not easy to rebuild. On a previous try, the Naval Academy failed: the 1920 Olympic crew was reassembled from stations in the fleet and put into training for the 1924 games, but lost to Yale by 5 ft. in the Olympic trials. In trying to beat all others for a second Olympic try. the 1952 winners are well aware of the difficulties ahead. Soft life in wardrooms, officers' clubs and pilots' seats larded...