Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be taken to task for not giving out with the story prevalent in the Fleet concerning "31-Knot Burke." While commanding a division of destroyers, the admiral somehow got off course and ended up in a minefield. When asked by his immediate superior what in hell he was doing over in that minefield, he calmly replied: "31 knots...
...Fleet Street buzzed last week with word that a single newspaper had dropped 1,000,000 circulation. The loss left Britain's weekly News of the World with a circulation that still topped 7,000,000-the biggest on earth. But the size and the rate of the drop-faster than that of any other British Sunday paper-prompted one critic, Francis Williams in the weekly New Statesman & Nation, to signal: "It looks as if we are at last drawing towards the close of an era in Sunday journalism-the era of the News of the World...
...struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage and rides around in a remodeled 1934 Ford. And with a family of three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children, 40 grandchildren and an estimated 3,400 servants, he carefully and personally plans the household menus for them all each day. A Nizam cannot...
...TURBINE ENGINES will soon be competing in the pleasure-type small-boat market. Boeing Airplane Co. has won first commercial contract to install eight 240-h.p. gas turbine engines (used to start jet planes, power minesweepers) on cruiser fleet operated by Creole Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. New engines give speeds up to 33 m.p.h., weigh one-fourth as much as comparable piston engines...
...Charging into a mild (3 m.p.h.) head wind, Duke's fleet-footed, redheaded Blue Devil, David Sime (TIME, May 21), ran the 100-yd. dash in a world-record-tying 0:09.3 at the Carolina A.A.U. meet in Raleigh...