Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus Transit Authority equipment led the attack on Massachusetts Ave. and Arrow Street. Featured in the MTA fleet were three brand new Walter Snow-Fighters (Guaranteed 100% Traction) with an estimated 690 horsepower operating through fourteen gears forward and six back...
From the moment Stevenson's little air fleet touched down on a grass strip at Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo...
Supplementary Income. To supplement his union salary ($21,000 a year), Hoffa has at various times held interests in a brewery, a trotting track, a summer camp, oil leases and (through his wife) a truck leasing company called Test Fleet, Inc. (Test Fleet, unsurprisingly, enjoyed excellent labor relations, and in four years paid dividends of more than $60,000 on an original investment of $4,000.) Between his professional and personal activities, Hoffa has run afoul of the law more times than he or anyone else can remember. Says he: "I got a list of arrests maybe as long...
NAVY'S DEMON JET FIGHTER, which was a $200 million flop with underpowered Westinghouse engines, is finally getting airborne. Six planes with Allison engines have passed flight tests and joined the fleet. The Navy, which was sharply criticized by a House subcommittee for its part in the fiasco, along with Planemaker McDonnell, now thinks all the bugs are licked, will spend another $55 million for more Demons...
...time reinforcements arrived, the Zulu dagga planters had fled to the impenetrable, distant mountains. Unable to pursue them, police returned to the dagga valley with a fleet of trucks. At week's end they had harvested and destroyed close to 200 tons of deathly dagga...