Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever its political implications, Big Lift was undeniably one whale of a show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers...
...night, a fleet of 70 chartered buses shuttled the G.I.s across the flat, dusty Texas plains to four nearby air-bases. So tight was the schedule they followed that on the 75-minute trip from Fort Hood to Bergstrom, precisely eleven minutes were allowed for stop lights. In groups of 70 or 80, perspiring soldiers in itchy o.d.s tramped up the ramps; inside the windowless cargo planes the temperature hit 110°, and the men shucked shirts and even T shirts until they were airborne and began cooling...
Trade & Land. The Braun-Menendezes own a fleet of twelve fishing and cargo ships, piers and a shipyard, and a six-plane airline called Austral with routes spanning 2,500 miles. Their 22 stores, selling everything from pins to pickup trucks, have prospered from Patagonia's oil boom; 600,000 sheep fatten on their vast ranches. In a holding company named La Josefina (after their mother), the family has impressive investments in Argentine banking, insurance and chemical companies. With all that diversity, they have prospered despite Argentina's continuing financial trouble. By family reckoning, their companies last year...
...hard tackle jarred the ball loose from the Indian halfback and Harvard's Bob Barrett wrapped himself around the loose ball at the Dartmouth 27-yard line. Humenuk tried Dockery off left tackle, but three yard gain wasn't satisfying enough. His pass to the fleet halfback in the end zone on the next play was batted down. However, the next play satisfied every Harvard fan in the stadium, as Humenuk dropped a perfect touchdown pass into the outstretched hands of Ulclckas. As usual, Hartranft added...
...Fleet Street Tuesday night, the early morning headlines were already in type: MAC WILL CARRY ON. The news, leaked to parliamentary correspondents on the eve of the Conservative Party's annual conference in seaside Blackpool, was that Harold Macmillan had told his Cabinet ministers he felt compelled to stay on as Prime Minister unless they could reach virtually unanimous agreement on his successor...