Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise the satellite station into its orbit 1,075 miles above the earth, Von Braun proposes to build a fleet of three-stage rockets, each standing 265 feet high and weighing 7,000 tons when fueled. The 51 motors in the first stage will have a thrust of 14,000 tons. The second stage will be smaller, and the third, containing the crew, control apparatus and final payload, will be a winged vehicle rather like an airplane...
...Other notables of the class of 1915: Eighth Army's four-star Jim Van Fleet; the Air Force's four-star Joe McNarney, now retired and president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.; the Air Force's three-star George Stratemeyer, also retired. Of the class's 164 graduates, 41 are dead, 74 retired, 20 in civilian jobs, 26 in the Army, three in the Air Force...
...spite of their losses, the proud ROKs had proved their stomach for battle. Last week Eighth Army Commander James Van Fleet, the man mainly responsible for the ROK resurgence, reviewed elements of two new ROK divisions-the 12th and 15th-at the start of their training. With the copybook eloquence that becomes him, Soldier Van Fleet said: "The ROK army has come of age. It has proved to the world its great fighting heart. It will always be successful in battle. May it never fail...
Died. Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison, 85, commander of the Atlantic Fleet's submarine force during World War I, onetime (1921-22) military governor of Santo Domingo and later (1925-26) commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet; in Glendale, Calif...
...Today, though more than one-third of its 4,000 ships are in mothballs and in reserve, the U.S. Navy still ranks first. According to the new edition of Jane's Fighting Ships, it is "the largest peacetime fleet ever maintained by any country and is as large as all the other navies of the world put together...