Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy. Expenditures, $10.5 billion, down $800 million from this year; new obligational authority, $9.9 billion, an increase of $350 million from this year because the Navy has a comparatively small ($13.5 billion) carryover. The Navy will sail into the fiscal year with 1,124 ships, 13,130 planes and 740,500 men, should emerge with 1,078 ships, 12,940 planes...
...Royces (price: up to $20,000), buy their cutaways in Savile Row ($140), dress their wives in Hartnell gowns ($550 each), bring their daughters out in sumptuous balls at the Dorchester during the London season ($3,000). Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig. How is it done on less than $16,800 a year...
...each other to get it, but nobody does get it, because Stewart Granger, the last man left alive, has to run away from hostile natives, leaving the pearl at the bottom of a lagoon. Later he tries to persuade his brother, Captain Taylor, master of a whaling ship, to sail back and raise the treasure. When the captain refuses, Granger steals both Taylor's ship and his wife (Ann Blyth...
This is no ordinary submarine. Its fuel is uranium; its engine needs no air. Theoretically, it could cruise around the earth without coming once to the surface. It could make an attack across the Pacific without poking more than a periscope into the atmosphere. It could sail the dark and secret sea under the Arctic...
...Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport, which will expire Jan. 28. In an outraged huff, Clark announced that he would soon sail to the U.S. from France, pay his own way home. He said he would hold his explosion "until I put my feet on free American soil...