Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya to Jordan-nothing much to win a war with, but a fair symbol of the atom-packed Sixth Fleet that lay somewhere below the horizon offshore...
...told-from a variety of union business agents, a truck owner who employed Teamsters, and Teamster officials. He rarely paid interest, signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa's wife (Josephine Poszywak) and the wife of his pal, Owen Bert Brennan (Alice Johnson). Test Fleet got its trucks through the good offices of a Detroit trucking firm, Commercial Carriers, Inc., which then leased the equipment back from...
Bert Beveridge. Commercial's accountant kept the Test Fleet books for four years at no salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden...
...Lisbon, Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, took public notice of greatly increased movements of Soviet cruisers and destroyers through the Dardanelles into the eastern Mediterranean. The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island...
Alfred bought coal and ore mines in Germany and Spain, built power, gas and water plants and his own fleet of ships. Above the smoke and soot of the Ruhrgebiet, overlooking his busy factories, he built Villa Hiigel, a monstrous, boxlike pile made of stone and steel because Alfred feared fire. There he entertained the royalty and dignitaries who streamed to Essen to pay tribute to his genius. When he died in 1887, the Kaiser sent a special deputy, and messages of condolence poured in from all over the world...