Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother, Brother. To set up the elections, officials of the caretaker Masjumi (Moslem) Party government of Burhanuddin Harahap used a fleet of 100 yachts and fishing boats, air-force planes, army trucks, oxcarts and 3,500 bicycles to transport ballots. They distributed millions of leaflets, showing the different par ty symbols and explaining to the elector ate the simple mechanics of voting -punching a hole through the symbol of one's choice. Electoral officers plodded through the jungles to advertise the election with cartoon movies and singing pup pet shows. Sample song: "Let's all go there, brother...
...generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does not want to sail with us may go ashore." Out of 2,300 navy...
First Day of Spring. By the fourth day, much of the interior was under rebel control, and a powerful fleet under Rojas was in the River Plate threatening to bombard the capital unless Perón quit. As a warning of what might come, rebel warships stood off the beach-resort city of Mar del Plata, shelled port installations and a government oil refinery...
...planes and their timetable: ¶ $125 million fleet of 40 piston-engined Douglas DC-7Bs, plus another ten Lockheed Super Constellations to give Eastern 370-m.p.h. cruising speeds along all its mainline routes. Eastern has already ordered 20 of the planes and received eight; the remaining 42 will be delivered...
...million, 40-plane fleet of 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprops similar to those recently ordered by American Airlines. Captain Eddie sat down with Lockheed President Robert Gross and signed an order for 40 Electras with an option on 30 more, each one to carry 66 passengers first-class, up to 91 air coach...