Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surplus-grain program for India, was negotiating a wheat agreement with Israel and talking of shipping food-mostly wheat-to Poland. Hungary, and other rebellious Russian satellites. To transport the vast amount of commodities the Maritime Administration last week released thirty 10,000-ton wartime freighters from its reserve fleet...
...bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...
Britain's First Sea Lord and chief of its naval staff, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten, 56, was upped to Admiral of the Fleet, top rank in Her Majesty's Navy...
...Still looking like the class of the South, undefeated Georgia Tech shredded a beefy but inexperienced Auburn line, shook its fleet backs loose on long scoring strikes, won going away, 28-7. Mississippi was knocked from the undefeated ranks by an underdog Tulane team, 10-3. North Carolina finally won its first game under its new coach, Jim Tatum, by defeating (34-6) Tatum's former team, Maryland -which has taken almost nothing but beatings since Tatum left...
...during the Korean war, helped out during the fight for Dienbienphu in Indo-China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese, 40% by its U.S. backers, CAT flies its 32-plane fleet (DC-35, C-46s PBYs) along 7,000 miles of routes throughout Asia, proudly notes that it has never lost a passenger. Its repair operation (100% U.S. owned) on Formosa currently does 15% of all CAT's business repairing U.S. Air Force planes as well as civilian transports...