Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Fertig's inventive leadership, the guerrillas governed entire provinces, printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur...
ARTHUR E. LINK New York City The Treaty Debate Sir: The signing of this "nonaggression" pact with the U.S.S.R. reminds me of one signed in the '20s-the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It did not deter the Japanese from building a fleet-and we sold them the scrap iron...
...confused with James C. Fahey, compiler of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a data-packed softback that has sold over half a million copies...
...lead over the Russians in ICBMs, which can land the weapons on any chosen target. 3) The superior U.S. fleet of intercontinental bombers is equipped with enough larger bombs to wipe out Soviet cities many times over. One possible disadvantage: by not being able to test in the atmosphere, the U.S. may fail to find out enough about the effects which the Red superbombs might have on U.S. defenses, such as blurring radar and knocking out delicate electronic ground-control mechanisms...
...South Haven, Mich., he bought a sunken 26-ft. boat for $75, raised and repaired it, then chartered it for twice the price. He has not stopped since. Now a youthful-looking 66, D. K. Ludwig is the world's biggest individual ship operator, commanding a tanker fleet that can carry 2,500,000 tons. As if that were not enough the lean, frugal and publicity-shy Ludwig mines salt in Mexico, refines oil in Panama, raises cattle in Venezuela. He is worth $350 million-give or take $100 million...