Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progression. Staffers who were on vacation streamed back to the office. With only 24 hours until deadline time (the magazine went to press on Monday nights then), the editors scrapped the planned cover on Walt Disney's elephant Dumbo in favor of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Kimmel. A new section, called The U.S. at War, appeared at the front of the magazine...
...plus another $3,000,000 of taxpayers' funds to support an Imperial Household Agency of 1,200 officials. Inside the palace compound in Tokyo, a $38 million ceremonial hall is now abuilding for him, and a $27,000 Nissan Royal limousine has just been added to the royal fleet of three Rolls-Royces, a Daimler, a Cadillac and a Mercedes. The irreverent young in the big cities question the point of keeping a royal family, but oldsters still burst into tears at the sight of their ex-god's expressionless face...
...Yellow Tiles. Sofia, once the dreariest of East-bloc capitals, has already taken on a new vigor and vivacity. A burgeoning fleet of privately owned automobiles now dominates yellow-tiled Russki Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current...
Little known outside Norway, Berge sen, at 75, is one of Europe's most successful practitioners of the art of running a tanker fleet. He builds some of his own ships and orders others from competing yards, specializing in the immensely economical leviathans that are three times as capacious as mere supertankers. Last month his 149,000-ton Bergehaven unloaded 1,000,000 bbl of oil at Milford Haven, England- the biggest single delivery ever made in Europe. A sister ship will be finished in Japan this week, bringing his fleet to 1 ships totaling 1,300,000 tons...
...rapidly growing and robustly competitive business of auto and truck rentals, Avis, Inc., makes much of the fact that it is only a hard-trying No. 2. Obviously, No. 1 is the Hertz Corp., with a rental fleet now totaling 125,000 vehicles. Hertz's familiar yellow signs are out in 98 countries, most recently including Finland, New Guinea and the Dominican Republic. Revenues this year will top $300 million...