Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba, a U.S. fleet was on its way within hours. The U.S.S. Blandy, a destroyer, shoved off so quickly from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
...President's private quarters amidships include a bedroom with two beds and a desk, a sitting room with six chairs, a desk and a couch, and one of the two galleys. For short hops, there is a new fleet of jet helicopters, with wood-paneled cabins that are decorated with prints of old trains and clippah ships...
BOAC's losses stem largely from its decision to buy British aircraft. In 1955, it ordered a fleet of sleek, new Comet4 long-range pure jets and, after delivery in 1958, saw them made obsolete within a year by more economical, longer-range U.S. Boeing 707s. Now BOAC has 16 Boeing 707s; but it is stuck with 60 prop planes, propjets and Comets, whose value, according to the last BOAC annual report, is "?30 million less than book value...
Carter Ford, Mike Horn, Mike Lehmass, and Dave Stookey will skipper the Crimson fleet...
...Mistral, which once hit 206 m.p.h. for the world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland, the six Common Market nations offer what is probably the best overall railroad service in the world: a fleet of all-reserved, streamlined European expresses that connect 90 cities, average 70 m.p.h., have stenographers, stewardesses and Silberputzer to keep the chrome shining. Russia also is following the express trend, recently sent a special eleven-car train speeding 109 m.p.h. in a test between Moscow and Leningrad...