Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the nose of Communist guns, Bell was in Formosa learning from President Chiang Kai-shek in an exclusive interview that the U.S. Navy would convoy Nationalist supply vessels to Quemoy. Fast as his loafers could carry him, he sprinted aboard Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley's Seventh Fleet flagship Helena to accompany the first U.S. daylight escort to Quemoy. For the product of Bell's sprints, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Turn of the Screw and Convoy for Quemoy...
...Similar retaliation would meet any hostile move against U.S. ships convoying Nationalist men and supplies through the Red picket line around Quemoy. The news behind this promise: orders had already gone out to the Seventh Fleet to break the blockade by escorting Nationalist supply ships to within three miles of Quemoy-and perhaps all the way to the beach if Chiang's gunboats failed to beat off Red raiders...
...blockade, two U.S. heavy cruisers and six U.S. destroyers escorted a pair of Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy's three-mile limit in broad daylight. Said Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Now the problem of keeping the sea lanes open in the Formosa Strait is up to the Seventh Fleet...
...quarrel grew from Iceland's unilateral decision to extend its territorial waters to a twelve-mile limit and to ban fishing by foreigners within that area (TIME, June 16). Britain's answer was to escort its trawler fleet with frigates of the Royal Navy, far more powerful than the one-gun patrol boats of the Icelandic coast guard. The British point: if Iceland gets away with a twelve-mile limit, other nations with valuable fishing grounds-Norway, Denmark, Canada-might follow suit...
Dispatching his personal barber, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down all but a single, suavely undulant wave...