Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Fleet would stop shielding Red China...
...Named to succeed General James A. Van Fleet in Korea...
...planes-two British-built Mark I Comets-will be operated by Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Canada's No. 1 private air service. (The larger Trans-Canada Air Lines is government-owned and subsidized.) Last week the company inaugurated its first direct service between Vancouver and Honolulu. A new fleet of 50-passenger, four-engine DC-6Bs now makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service, the DC-6B passengers can transfer to the Comets for Sydney...
General James A. Van Fleet, retiring commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was given a farewell title: honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the Seoul National University. Among those who gathered to hear Dr. Van Fleet's acceptance speech: the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea...
...unquestionably, it was Damon, aided by T.W.A.'s Chairman Pierson, the financial boss, who put T.W.A. into sound enough shape so that it could sell $10.5 million of new stock to the public, modernize its whole fleet with $100 million worth of new planes, and pay for all but $6,000,000 of it out of the line's income...