Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since World War II, the once insignificant Soviet navy has developed an ambitious new objective-wresting from the U.S. control of the seas. To this end the U.S.S.R. is building 50 to 60 submarines a year, and now has an in-service fleet of more than 400 subs, almost four times as many...
...Wide World, he planned to put TV cameras in diving bells, on skis and surfboards, atop mountains and deep in caverns. In a creative frenzy, he cried: "Let's get the Sadler's Wells Ballet to do an outside original in an exciting locale, like on a fleet of barges being towed around Manhattan, with the symphony orchestra on the first barge, and cameras with telescopic lenses spotted ashore to zoom in from the Empire State, the Statue of Liberty, the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on a particular scene and with a natural finish as it turns into...
...save-our-school campaign by alumni and friends, Congress opened hearings to determine the academy's status. Impressed by the record of Kings Point's well-trained graduates (all bound to eight-years' service in the Naval Reserve) and wanting to strengthen the merchant fleet, the House and Senate decided that the U.S. could ill afford to lose the school. Henceforth Kings Point cadets will be appointed by their Representatives and Senators, will know for the first time that their diplomas will be as valid as those of West Point and Annapolis. Said one relieved first classman...
Died. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 84, Commander (1917-20) of the Grand Fleet's 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Naval Aide-de-Camp (1930-31) to George V; of pneumonia; in Leamington, England...
...Berton Steir, who wanted to get into a new business that would be depression-proof. In 1950 they bought one automatic coffee machine and started to serve coffee in a downtown Boston office. Since then, McConnell and Steir have built a $2,000,000-a-year business, own a fleet of trucks, 300 coin-operated coffee dispensers, 30 banks of food-vending machines, and a catering service that sells coffee by the jug to more than 100 offices and industrial plants...