Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even Fleet Street reporters for Britain's brashest tabloids considered the Ellis articles to be "a bit near the bone...
...last week for the opening of the 49th National Motor Boat Show. Eying the crowd's ardor and remembering the sales figures from last year, exhibitors glowed with optimism. Despite the recession, Americans spent a record $2.1 billion on boating in 1958, and the nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million), the industry expects a 10% rise in outboard sales in 1959, similar gains for inboard powerboats and sailing craft...
...Namgyal, who was educated in India, and then spent several years in a Buddhist lamasery as a reincarnation of his uncle (who had been an abbot). The handsome young prince wheels over the country's 57 miles of navigable roads in a pink Mercedes and has imported a fleet of Mercedes trucks for the government...
...five men he sent letters asking: "If it would be convenient, could you possibly send me a short statement on your participation in the battle? Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...
...your spirit of study in the war history, and am glad to answer your question. It is happy for me to think if my explanations written on the attached papers would be useful to you." The admiral went on testily to assert that "little information concerning actions of Shima fleet during the battle are found in the U.S., and many reports . . . were written neither with ample knowledge nor facts of actual features." He defended himself against Critic James A. Field Jr., who wrote in The Japanese at Leyte Gulf that "Shima, in a sense, is the buffoon of the tragedy...