Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles is a little like watching a wayward eel float through a fleet of submarines...
These holdings pale beside his other operations. His parent company, Kokusai Kogyo (International Enterprises), was started in Tokyo in 1947 with a fleet of dilapidated charcoal-burning buses, and now embraces 38 subsidiaries, including ski areas and bowling alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...
...Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The company, which has contracted to build as many as 313 Tomcats, said that it has already lost $1,000,000 each on the first 86 planes that it is producing (22 have been completed and tested, though none are yet with the fleet). Building 48 more planes at contract prices, Grumman officials claimed, would cause the company to lose another $105 million, a cost that would threaten its survival...
...swing-wing F14, which can take off from land runways or carriers and has a primary mission of protecting the fleet against air attack, has proved extremely effective in tests. Actual construction of the planes in the latest Navy order is not set to start until mid-1974, and company officials believe that they can work out a satisfactory arrangement with the Navy before then...
...walks to the Swan tavern to meet Sarah Udall, recording his aims, in bastard French, to "kiss and see mamelles...comgram plaisir." He reports to the royal council on the victualing of the fleet, and is complimented by "the King afterward, who doth now know me so well, that he never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business...