Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...
...vacation headquarters at Fraser, Colo., President Eisenhower declared six Eastern states disaster areas and ordered federal relief. Swarms of helicopters and Army amphibious "ducks" were pressed into action. In one dramatic helicopter rescue, a fleet of whirlybirds rescued 235 passengers on a stranded Lackawanna Railroad train in the Poconos...
...Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries free himself and send the alarm...
...Last week the tabloid Daily Sketch's, circulation topped the 1,000,000 mark, a sensational rise of nearly 400,000 readers in little more than two years, based wholly on the paper's new diet of cheesecake, sex, crime and alarm-ringing political coverage. Last week Fleet Streeters also got the announcement of a new daily, the Sun. Said the Sun's prospectus, leaving no doubt as to what kind of daily it intends to be: "It will be lighthearted . . . We are not, unlike some publishers, trying to sell newspapers to corpses...
Outside the quality press there is very little real news in most British newspapers. How did British popular dailies get so bad? Many a Fleet Streeter blames it all on the late great Lord Northcliffe, father of British popular journalism. But the source is broader. When Northcliffe started the popular Daily Mail in 1896, British newspapers were thoroughly stuffy, aimed at a tiny educated class. Northcliffe created the "penny press" for a mass audience that had grown literate as a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution...