Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II pilots who have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...
...with his memories last week, relaxed and more thoroughly happy than he had been for a very long time. The class of 1915 was the one "the stars fell on," and 40 of its 59 generals were on hand for its 40th reunion-among them Bradley, Stratemeyer, Harmon, Van Fleet. On hand, too, was Mamie Eisenhower, looking well in summer prints; she seemed to know everyone there...
...take many forms until after the War of 1812. Betsy Ross possibly fashioned a flag suggested by the congressional resolution, but later John Paul Jones flew a banner of red, white and blue stripes-possibly influenced by the French, who were paying the expenses of Jones's fleet. And, as if to punctuate history's confusion, a contemporary view of the battle between the Constitution and the Guerriére in 1812 shows everything flying-the Stars and Stripes, the Stars alone, and the old Puritan Stripes of Rebellion...
Specifications for the new turboprop had been laid down by American Airlines. American wanted the plane for medium-range routes to replace its 75-plane fleet of relatively slow (270 m.p.h.), twin-engined Convairs, had been shopping ever since Capital Airlines decided to import Vickers' 320-m.p.h. Viscounts last year. Convair, Douglas, Vickers and Lockheed all put in bids and, when Lockheed won, it was the first time that Lockheed had ever beaten Douglas for an important American Airlines contract...
Bargaining for the much-needed fleet of King Nicomedes of Bithynia, Caesar was faced with one condition; the King would lend his fleet "if the handsome young Roman noble would sleep with him." Although he was always known as an enthusiastic ladies' man, Caesar agreed, and felt he had done his country a patriotic turn...