Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy $9.7 billion, down $75 million from this year. While about 100 noncombatant ships would be laid up, the budget looks forward to more Navy power on the water and in the air, including a fifth supercarrier and an eventual fleet of seven atomic-powered submarines...
With a sweep of a pen, American President Lines, biggest West Coast shipper, contracted with the U.S. Maritime Board last week for the complete replacement of a merchant fleet. Over the next ten years American President will retire all its 19 ships, including the 981-passenger President Cleveland, and its sistership the President Wilson, replace them with 18 to 20 new ships. Total cost of the program: $225 million, of which the U.S. Government will pay $90 million, American President Lines the balance...
...Maritime Board and American President had been working on the deal for several years, came to terms last summer on the first step-replacing eight ships at a cost of $65.8 million (TIME, Aug. 9). But each saw a farther horizon. The board wanted the whole fleet modernized while American President was more immediately interested in getting a Government subsidy for operating over Trade Route 17 (Atlantic Coast through the Panama Canal to Malaya and Indonesia). Finally a bargain was struck. If American President would agree to replace its entire fleet over a ten-year period, the Maritime Board would...
...have kept silence on the subject of Pearl Harbor," writes Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 72. "Now, however, I deem it my duty to speak out.'' In testimony at inquiries, Kimmel previously implied that Washington kept vital information from him before the Japanese struck at his fleet. Books by his partisans have done the same. Now Kimmel makes the direct charge for the first time: "This lack of action on the part of both the War and Navy Departments must have been in accordance with high political direction...
...where and when it might boil over. All through November, for instance, Washington was reading intercepted messages in which the Japanese consulate in Hawaii sent Tokyo pinpoint locations of Pearl Harbor warships. Says Kimmel: "The information received during the ten days preceding the attack clearly pointed to the Fleet at Pearl Harbor as the Japanese objective, yet not one word of warning and none of this information was given to the Hawaiian Commanders...