Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from which guided missiles could be launched upon U.S. cities, the Navy's concern with oceanography has expanded. That concern has brought U.S. oceanographers money, men and resources they never dreamed of before the war, made their specialty perhaps the fastest-growing science in the world. The oceanographic fleet has grown to twelve ocean-going vessels backed by a swarm of small craft and expanding shore establishments full of expensive apparatus. The Russians have proved equally alert to the ocean's dangers and possibilities, have 14 fulltime oceanographic vessels roaming the seas...
...into a major science is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II himself. Since the prewar days when he solved the Navy's temperature problems off Guantanamo, he has been longtime director of Woods Hole, seen its fulltime staff grow from a prewar 24 to the present 300, its fleet from one ship to five, is now its senior oceanographer...
...NATO's-existence by 1) refusing to accept launching pads for U.S. intermediate-range missiles in France, 2) failing to integrate France's strategic air defense into an overall NATO system, 3) denouncing an agreement that obligated France to put a third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in event...
...Selwyn Lloyd or ensure his continuance in office. The simplest explanation was that the august Times of London-by blowing up run-of-the-mill speculation-had goofed, and the lesson of it was that the once mighty Thunderer is really now, as so many Fleet Streeters call it, old Aunty of Printing House Square. The further consequence of the flap was that plodding Selwyn Lloyd could now consider himself more secure...
...internal free-for-all that followed Pakistan's birth as a nation, Kassim and Abdullah Bhatti, sons of two fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste...