Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing to take risks. During the Depression he bought merchant ships at rock-bottom prices, even though there was a world glut of cargo capacity. In World War II, those aging vessels earned him huge profits by carrying supplies for the Allies. Later he pioneered the supertanker, building a fleet of at least 50 oil carriers...
...secretaries and clerks. The Civil List, however, is only a part of the estimated $14 million spent annually to maintain the monarchy. The government also picks up the tab for three of the five royal residences, the royal yacht, a seldom used royal train and a royal helicopter fleet...
...past two years, Iran has gone on such an arms-buying spree that it has spent $7.6 billion in the U.S. alone acquiring one of the world's most modern arsenals. The Shah's air force will soon add the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Mach 2.3 fighter to its fleet of 60 F-5s and 200 F-4 Phantoms (with another 200 ordered), not to mention eight tankers for inflight refueling...
...books by playing one nation against the other. "What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...
...sprints appear to be another Eli strength Sophomore Tony Frink leads the corps on the basis of his 21.9 second 50 ,and 48.2 second 100 free dual wins against Princeton. Yale also has a whole fleet of swimmers who have covered 100 yards in 48.0 seconds...