Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climax acted fast. It flew one of its top uranium geologists out to Nowata, and hired a fleet of "gamma" trucks to scout the area. Reported Climax: some of its oilwell filters were indeed radioactive. But on the basis of its gamma reports and the general geology of the Nowata area, the company did not believe that there was any uranium lode on its land. It speculated that the uranium, spread throughout the oilfields in small quantities in the rock, was leached out by the water and deposited in the filters...
...Germans are dickering to build a coastal freighter fleet, sugar and paper mills for Chile, whose Development Corp.'s executive vice president last week wound up a two-month business trip to West Germany...
Along London's Fleet Street, Sunday People Reporter Duncan Webb, 37, is sometimes called the "greatest crime reporter of our time." In almost 20 years of covering crime he has been slugged, kicked, lunged at with knives, shot at, knuckle-dusted and was once the target of a speeding automobile that raced onto the sidewalk of a narrow Soho street and tried to smash him against a building. Last week Webb was still wearing a plaster cast on his right wrist, broken two months ago when a London gangster known as "Jack Spot" objected to one of his stories...
...completion, the first of a Go-plane, $67 million order for Capital Airlines, the first U.S. airline to switch from piston to turbine power and the first in history to buy anything but U.S. planes. With American Airlines, biggest U.S. line, shopping around for replacements for its 77-plane fleet of two-engine Convairs, U.S. planemakers will have to scramble to keep Vickers from making an even bigger dent in the short-haul airliner market. All told, the world's airlines have ordered 177 Viscounts, and many of the new planes will replace American equipment...
Starting with steel, Vickers first pushed into shipbuilding, by 1900 was building a large portion of Britain's fleet and its first submarine. In World War I, Vickers saw new business in the budding air age, turned out the Vickers "gun bus," one of the world's first planes armed with machine guns (which Vickers also produced). Later, the first flight across the Atlantic was made by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers "Vimy...