Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally it can be said of the U.S. marines in peacetime that their whines have tender gripes. But there was nothing normal last week about the bitter feelings of the members of the ready-for-action Fleet Marine Force and their wives and children stationed in and around Japan-except for the profound hope that the imminent arrival of Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate would bring relief from their painful problem. The problem: on prodding from Washington, Force headquarters had turned on the pressure to get marines to send home all dependents who had come to Japan on long-term...
...small chip off a great old oaken block, Sir Winston Churchill's only son Randolph is one of Fleet Street's masters of the art of abuse, especially when he chooses the British press as a target...
...week, objected to "paid hack." Those words were accusing him of being "a journalistic prostitute and of writing for money what he was told-a common literary drudge." Actually, argued the lawyer, Randolph's value to editors was "the fact of his complete independence." He called witnesses from Fleet Street who testified that Randolph was indeed clamorously independent...
...That derives from a Fleet Street metaphor that dog does not eat dog. I continued the metaphor from the canine world...
...Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe, South America and Japan. Though many shipping lines protested bitterly, Lewis and friends argued that the fleet will be able to carry 2,500,000 tons more coal each year, thus provide more jobs for U.S. seamen besides helping the coal industry. Lewis, who will soon ask the Government for a second fleet of 50 ships, predicted that U.S. coal exports will rise 10% to 45 million...