Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this republic will not consider herself obliged to respect any of the decisions or recommendations adopted by the conference.'' Panama should have been invited, said the communiqué, because 1) the Panama Canal "is in some respects similar to the Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo last week, Panama's Ambassador to Italy, doubling as Minister to Egypt, declared that Gamal Abdel Nasser had the right to nationalize the Suez Canal Company, and that Panama would never accept international control of its canal-comments that afforded...
...grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...
...primary-built organization. Rayburn and Johnson used brimstone words while protesting that, in giving the convention its choice, Stevenson would seem to be abdicating his responsibility. People might think that Adlai would have equal trouble making up his mind about "whether some night to use the Seventh Fleet...
Died. Vice Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, 61, onetime (1952-54) commander of the ten-nation NATO Atlantic fleet, president (since 1954) of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I.; of a heart attack; in Newport...
...weather makes up out of nowhere, fog abounds, squalls are sharp and sudden. By playing those unpredictable elements shrewdly last week, Nicholas J. Geib, 39, a manufacturer of musical-instrument cases, brought home his nimble 39-ft. yawl Fleetwood through the Straits of Mackinac to lead the 63-ship fleet on corrected time of 40 hr. 10 min. 3 sec. (His actual time...