Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, visibly disturbed, repeated a question posed by Navy Chief Sergei Gorshkov: "Is our Mediterranean fleet going to go back to depending on Odessa for supplies and fresh water? This would mean we will have to contract our navy in the Mediterranean...
...measures to prevent incidents at sea and in airspace over it between vessels and aircraft of the U.S. and Soviet navies." By indirection, the Russian exodus from Egypt has honored this pledge in one key sea. TU-16 Badger reconnaissance planes that have long overflown the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from Egyptian bases have ended such flights and gone home. The games of "chicken" that scrambling U.S. carrier pilots played with them have stopped...
...were released on a convenient legal technicality, upwards of 170,000 British workers had left their jobs in sympathy strikes that slowed or shut down mines and steel mills, virtually closed London's Heathrow airport, stopped most of London's busses and for five full days halted Fleet Street's presses. At week's end angry dockers, shouting "We want work! We want work!," voted for an indefinite strike that promised to cripple Britain's ports, its already fragile economy and very possibly Ted Heath's political future...
...would be hauled in a fleet of 20 LNG (for liquefied natural gas) supertankers, a new class of vessels that will cost as much as $100 million each. They are known among shipbuilders as "super thermos bottles" for the mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...
...that carries a crew of 30, and has put more than $1,000,000 worth of improvements into it, including $48,000 worth of teleprinter equipment to keep him in communication with the world's financial centers. A dapper figure with a neatly trimmed beard, Hyams owns a fleet of fast sports cars, raises pheasant and regularly throws hunting parties for a small circle of close friends...