Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the morning the weather was so adverse as to cause one boat to capsize and severely hamper the rest of the fleet. By the afternoon, however, the morning's light rain and high winds gave way to calmer weather...
...blue eyes, brown hair. Christian Scientist. Born: East Derry, N.H.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '44 (462nd in a class of 913). In World War II, Al Shepard saw Pacific combat on the destroyer Cogswell, then won his wings ('47), and after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets), he was tapped as a fast-rising comer, sent to the Naval War College...
...done-with a tidy profit for himself. From his 24-room office suite in Manhattan, Fred Ayer announced the purchase of 45 Douglas DC-6s (value $30 million) from American Airlines, plus first refusal rights on the $23 million worth of DC-6s left in American's fleet...
...sale puts American Airlines a big jump ahead of its competitors in disposing of its piston fleet (now more than half sold); it also makes Fred Ayer, president and sole owner of his firm, easily the world's biggest aircraft dealer, puts him in a commanding position to cash in on the used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes...
...hopes of negotiating a new conservation treaty with Japan. But last week a second power was moving into the fishing grounds-and one with which negotiations are considerably more difficult. As U.S. Navy planes kept a 24-hour watch, a Russian fishing fleet of 64 boats cruised off Alaska's Pribilof Islands. "Research into fish migrations," explained the Soviets. The Alaskans see another purpose: they think that the Russians are lying in wait for the thick schools of salmon just beginning their annual spawning...