Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the game, one of the first men in the dressing room was Fleet Admiral (ret.) William F. ("Bull") Halsey. No naval battle had ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...
...Million's top echelon is studded with big, even distinguished, names. Lieut. General (ret.) George Stratemeyer, Korean war Air Force commander, is chairman of the national organization. Among the vice chairmen are General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet; Admiral (ret.) William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations and Ambassador to Russia; Lieut. General (ret.) Pedro A. del Valle, commander of the 1st Marine Division at Okinawa; and Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey...
Many a veteran of Korea came home angry and bitter about G.I.s' inadequate training. General Van Fleet wrote: "American boys . . . learn . . . only in combat, after three or more heavy battles, during which their casualties from enemy fire are enormously greater than they need be, [if we] could . . . have properly trained them (killing a few) back in the States on maneuvers...
SHIP TRADE-IN program will get another big boost from Maritime Administrator Louis Rothschild. In addition to trading in tankers (TIME, Nov. 8), Rothschild will now also let shipowners trade in their dry cargo vessels to the reserve fleet, give them a big allowance to be used for building newer and faster ships...
...more for Italy than foreign capital, thus does his best to ban outside investors and increase E.N.I.'s power. Starting with capital of $50 million last year, E.N.I, has rapidly expanded until now it controls most of Italy's production and refining, operates a tanker fleet, makes soap and sells 20% of all Italy's gasoline...