Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it has no legal or coercive powers, the council exercises considerable influence over Fleet Street. When it raps a paper, that publication-and all others-generally print the decision. One of the council's most publicized condemnations led the News of the World to tone down a series of after-the-fact confessions by Christine Keeler, the feminine lead in the 1963 Profumo scandal. Last September the council chided London's Daily Mirror for being "too definitive" in blaming a crew member for a plane crash while an investigation was just beginning. The Mirror apologized in print...
Seth Low made the official greeting for the City of Brooklyn, the Marines presented arms, a signal flag was dropped nearby and instantly there was a crash of a gun from the Tennessee. Then the whole fleet commenced firing. Steam whistles on every tug, steamboat, ferry, every factory along the river, began to scream. More cannon boomed. Bells rang, people were cheering wildly on every side. The band played "Hail to the Chief" maybe six or seven more times and, at the sight of Arthur 'the great multitude in the station arose and gave vent to the wildest enthusiasm...
...defense budget resulting from a pullout? War spending in the current fiscal year, including military aid to the South Vietnamese government, is budgeted for $7.3 billion. Roughly $1.5 billion of those expenses would be incurred whether there was a war or not; for example, the ships of the Seventh Fleet would have to be manned and serviced wherever they were. Thus, Pentagon planners estimate that peace would bring a savings of $5.8 billion annually. But Pentagon leaders insist that all of this sum?and more?will be needed for other military purposes. For one thing. President Nixon has ordered...
...same training -rated good by Western experts-as those in the Soviet military. They also have to undergo a physical examination before each flight. As for its planes, the airline itself clearly has doubts about one of them. All Antonov-10 aircraft, formerly workhorses of the Aeroflot domestic fleet, have been removed from passenger service since the Ukraine crash...
...ranks of shipbuilding countries. Since the huge construction rush in World War II, yards have been kept afloat mainly by repair work and Navy orders. The result was bluntly described to TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan by Maritime Administrator Robert J. Blackwell: "We are faced with a sorely depleted fleet...