Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the three networks did not try. Altogether they spent some $12 million in Kansas City, and accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 9,500 journalists and support troops. CBS alone assembled a fleet of 400 rental cars for its staff of 650. NBC finished off a half-built Kansas City apartment building for some of its people and imported seven vans full of furniture from Raleigh, N.C. Even ABC, which devoted only 60% as much air time to the convention as its competitors, put up a 300-ft.-long structure (dubbed "the Bridge on the River Kwai...
...their protest, but the tradition of kragdadigheid (ironfistedness) in dealing with blacks dies slowly. At New Canada Railway Station, hard by the giant yellow waste heaps of the gold mines, the crowd ran up against another roadblock, this one heavily manned and guarded by antiriot squads reinforced with a fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were evidently trying to avoid heavy casualties, because only two people were killed in the outburst. The march...
Died. Lord Thomson of Fleet, 82, international press czar; a month after suffering a stroke; in London. A debt-plagued salesman in rural Ontario during the Depression, Roy Herbert Thomson floated a loan to set up a small radio station, then acquired a struggling newspaper, the Timmins (Ont.) Press. From this slender base he built one of the world's largest press and broadcasting empires: more than 140 newspapers and dozens of magazines, TV and radio stations, mostly in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. In London, which became his base of operations in the 1950s, he picked...
Woods' passion for cars was shared by Jim Schoenfeld, whose father is a well-to-do podiatrist. Schoenfeld and Woods owned a fleet of ancient cars, trucks and motorcycles. Occasionally, Rick Schoenfeld would help fix up the derelicts...
...then novel technology of commercial jet travel. But that would be far less than the $750 million to $900 million in earnings that the airlines say they will need to attract new capital to replace aging, first-generation aircraft, which still account for 46% of the U.S. fleet...