Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREIGHTER-BUILDING program will be subsidized by Government. Maritime Administration is negotiating to replace entire 54-ship fleet of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. with fast (18 knots) freighters that could be used in national emergency. Deal calls for up to 53 dry-cargo ships to be built in private yards over 20 years with Government paying half of the estimated $500 million cost...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
BUSINESS FLYING BOOM is lifting dollar sales of civilian noncommercial planes to alltime high. Plane companies sold 6,738 private craft for $104 million last year, up 52% from the 4,434 planes for $68 million in 1955. Private civilian fleet now numbers 60,000 aircraft which fly 10,000,000 hours a year...
Died. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, 88, strongman of Hungary from 1920 to 1944; in his sleep; in Estoril, Portugal, where he had lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction...
Richard flatly contradicted manufacturers' current claims of increasing gasoline economy, said that du Font's car fleet showed a "loss of fuel economy of over 10% in seven years." But for 1961 he predicted a turn to new, more economical fuel systems, e.g., dual four-barrel carburetors, aircraft-type pressure carburetors, fuel-injection systems...