Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amount of work (if any) to be done." Not one to proclaim dogma without data, Author Parkinson presents the strange case of the British Admiralty. Between 1914 and 1928, the capital ships of the British navy declined from 62 to 20, the officers and men of the fleet dropped from 146,000 to 100,000, yet Admiralty officials increased nearly 80% from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute is the working of his law, says Parkinson, that "the officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all." A U.S. example of Parkinson...
...Bizry, army chief of staff, said "We believe the planes are not coming from Turkey but from the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean because this fleet is working together with the massing of Turkish troops on the Syrian border...
Thus the U.S.. armed with the local atomic capability of the Sixth Fleet and the worldwide thermonuclear capability of Strategic Air Command, and assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth. Baron Greenwich, Field Marshal, Air Marshal and Fleet Admiral of the Royal Navy-and an allowance of pocket money from the privy purse sufficient ($112,000 yearly) to maintain his position in style...
LONDON, Oct. 18--Russia tonight accused the United States of urging Turkey to launch an invasion of Syria along a 180-mile front and offering the active help of the American 6th Fleet...