Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulate in Nice dispatched an urgent predawn request: call out the police and round up all the U.S. Navymen in town. In half a dozen French and Italian ports, U.S. shore patrols marched into bars, hotels and nightclubs in search of men and officers of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
...late afternoon the Sixth Fleet had sailed: from Cannes the 60,000-ton supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers. Under leathery Fleet Commander Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, the atomic-armed Sixth was eastward bound to back up and buck up little Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...miles) to Britain's Christmas Island testing area were entirely confident that they knew what the British were doing. Declaring that the test would pollute Japan's Pacific fishing grounds, the Japan Council Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March i .and Aug. i. Driven by mounting public hysteria, the Japanese government five times formally requested the British to call off the test...
That description was supplied in private. Publicly, the State Department merely announced that the fleet was returning to its "normal place." But is said international communism" threatens Jordan's independence...