Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lights, whirring projectors and 9-ft.-high maps bristling with red pins. On one wall was an 18-ft. by 30-ft. colored map of Southeast Asia. On another, facing a semicircular table at which the key conferees sat, were multicolored lights positioning every vessel in the U.S. Pacific fleet and maps pinpointing Viet Cong supply areas, Soviet and Red Chinese ships and munitions dumps, and other strategic targets...
...Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet orders; and a pair of personable American traitors, Peter and Helen Kroger, whose cozy home in a London suburb contained a radio that got its programming directly from Moscow...
...million be spent on the design and construction of deep-diving submarines capable of exploring the bottom and doing useful work at extreme depths. And in response to the growing demand from both Government and industry, the drawing boards of the nation's naval architects are producing a fleet of small, odd-looking submarines, most of them aimed at great depths...
...February 1962, Roger Lewis took over as president of General Dynamics, a sorely troubled company. Within a month, he flew from headquarters in Manhattan to the company's unprofitable and stubbornly independent Convair subsidiary in San Diego, where he boarded up the executive dining room, sold off the fleet of a dozen company limousines, and transferred the executive barber. Says Lewis, now 52: "That convinced them we meant business...
...measure would direct the Metropolitan District Commission to acquire and operate a liberty ship from the federal government's "mothball fleet" and construct an incinerator aboard it. The ship would be loaded with garbage during the day and, at night, would move out to sea to burn and dispose...