Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 600% in 18 months, to 400,000. The present plan is to limit further reinforcements to approximately 75,000 troops this year. The logistical expansion has been equally massive: 24 major airfields where previously there were nine, ten important seaports completed or under construction compared with one. A fleet of 472 supply ships plies the route to South Viet Nam, and an average of 30 cargo planes arrives daily. By late 1966, according to Mc-Namara, the U.S. and its allies achieved a stupendous rate of fire: 1,700,000 artillery and mortar rounds and 100 million small-arms...
...country-wide indoctrination program to make sure that every Soviet serviceman and citizen understands that the enemy lies at his door to the East. Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev lectured party leaders in Moscow, Donetsk and Gorky; President Nikolai Podgorny hit Kazan and Sverdlovsk. Premier Aleksei Kosygin briefed the Pacific Fleet last month, and dropped in to give his blessing to schoolchildren taking special anti-China courses recommended "as a model" for all Russia. The Russian chief of staff and a top missile commander toured Eastern Siberia, and Deputy Premier Dmitry
There is also a growing shortage of drivers. In Los Angeles, the 900-cab Yellow fleet has a 60% annual turnover of drivers. The two biggest cab companies in Memphis man only 200 of their 300 taxis. Philadelphia's Yellow Cab Co. pays employees a $25 bounty for recruiting new drivers who stay on the job at least 90 days. So serious is the shortage that companies which employed 75% full-time drivers to 25% part-timers ten years ago, find the proportions rapidly reversing. Nowadays the man up front is quite possibly a moonlighting actor, minister, artist, teacher...
...have been quietly circulated among the sponsoring publishers and unions. But the Guardian, which was not a party to the agreement, got a copy of the report and leaked salient portions. The leak forced the publishers to release the entire 555-page report. It is now the talk of Fleet Street-much to its own discomfort. For the report lays the lion's share of the blame for the industry's decline on a "small number of highly individualistic proprietors," some of whom have "little interest in modern management methods and techniques, yet retain almost absolute authority over...
...penthouse-level management, comes at a propitious moment: TWA is negotiating for rights to new, competitive trans-Pacific routes that would include Tokyo and Honolulu, where Hilton hotels are waiting. Additionally, good hotel accommodations are scarce, foreign-financed hotel construction is stagnant, and by 1970, TWA will have a fleet of cavern-cabined Boeing 747 jets hauling hordes of passengers around the globe. "With more people flying and more planes carrying them," said a TWA spokesman, "it's obvious that we need a place to put them when they get where they're going...