Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press played it up as one of the decade's worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain's newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted Churchill's immortal words of that dark hour: "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds." Fight what...
...Cornwall, where 100 miles of beaches were polluted, almost everyone volunteered to help. Hundreds of men, women and children turned up with buckets and watering cans, formed human chains to rush the detergent from trucks into the water. At St. Ives, the town's entire 27-boat fishing fleet patrolled offshore areas with detergent. At least 15,000 sea birds were killed by the oil, and Britons rallied to save thousands more by cleaning their feathers with absorbent compounds...
...pots, one at a time, from the bottom, 100 ft. below. By day's end, the trawler's tanks were crawling with 6,624 lbs. of Alaskan king crab, which were promptly delivered to a Wakefield Seafoods, Inc., processing plant. Such pickings, by Kathy C. and a fleet of 40 other crabbers, have made Wakefield's founder, Lowell Wakefield, the leader of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. fishing industry...
...million in construction projects work to put 20,000 unemployed back to work, it still seems determined on more mitun. Last month it was announced that the government-backed Zim Lines' gleaming liner Shalom, long a money loser even though she is the pride of Israel's fleet, would soon be sold to a West German shipping line. "We have got to make the economy pay its own way," says Finance Ministry Director-General Jacob Arnon. "We lived for ten years without paying anything...
Practically all of Fleet Street rushed to Punta Arenas, Chile, the world's southernmost city. Sir Francis Chichester, 65, the intrepid, unwavering yachtsman, was approaching Cape Horn-one of the most hazardous passages of his solo trip around the world in the 50-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV. Some 30 newsmen were on hand, most with little knowledge about exactly where Sir Francis was and less about how to find him. They set up a pool arrangement under which a few reporters and photographers would be put aboard a British frigate to pursue Gipsy Moth...