Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incensed by the discovery that it was losing millions of tax dollars in illegally exported rubber, the Indonesian government early this year assigned its best investigators to track down the culprits. The trail soon took an embarrassing turn. The chief smuggler-and the proprietor of a neat little fleet that regularly plied the straits between Sumatra and Malaya -turned out to be the Indonesian army. What was worse, the army 1) freely admitted it. 2) boldly declined to stop it. "We smuggle rubber," said a ranking officer. "So what? We have to live...
FIRST SHIPS released by Maritime Commission under emergency program to relieve ship shortage (TIME, July 2) will go to Isbrandtsen Line, which will get 15 mothballed Liberty ships from reserve fleet, use them to carry coal to Western European markets, where demand far outstrips supply. Lease arrangement is for 15% of ships' sale price, or $1,225,000 for total one-year charter...
...time was a stark one for the U.S.−mid-December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor. Frosty-eyed Admiral Ernest Joseph King had been called back to Washington to run the U.S. fleet, was soon to be appointed (the first man in history) to the double-gaited job of Fleet Commander and Chief of Naval Operations. Growled Sailorman King to his colleagues at the Navy Department: "When they get into trouble, they always send for the sons of bitches...
Anticipated Fate. After the war, in semi-retirement as an adviser to the Navy Department, Ernie King, five-star admiral of the fleet, remained a power in Washington, fighting the Navy's war against integration of the services, never retreating from his belief that despite the A-bomb the Navy as a fighting and landing team should be the nation's first force. Then, in 1947, came a brain hemorrhage from which he recovered enough to write, with a collaborator, Fleet Admiral King, a third-person account in which, with typical reticence, little of his inner self...
Last week, in the fullness of years, fate overtook Fleet Admiral Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...