Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dispatched a special message to the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet who participated in the evacuation of the Tachen Islands (see FOREIGN NEWS), to tell them: "Yours was a difficult and delicate assignment. On behalf of a grateful American people: well done...
...Holmes quit the next year, took a vice-presidency of T.W.A., and then the presidency of TACA Airways. He joined ex-Congressman Joe Casey, T.W.A.'s general counsel, in a scheme to buy surplus Government tankers, brought in ex-Boss Stettinius, who, in turn, brought in Fleet Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey. The tanker deals made over $3,000,000 on a $100,000 investment, and before long became the subject of a congressional investigation (TIME, March...
...momentousness of the news could be judged by the headlines it displaced. Until the bulletin from Moscow, the big news everywhere was of the U.S. Seventh Fleet steaming to within gun range of Communist China to evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression...
This affray above the Yellow Sea differed from its predecessors in that it was the biggest and best organized Communist air ambush since Korea; also in that the Communists did not even bother to protest. Six hundred miles southward, in the storm center around the Tachen Islands, the Seventh Fleet took wary note. "I want tight formations, no straggling," one Navy flight leader told his pilots. "Test your guns as soon as you get into a clear area. Make certain they are ready. Remember this-we are not out looking for a fight. But if trouble is brought...
Last week, the checks completed, United Air Lines' Convair fleet was back in the air, and President W. A. Patterson found a fitting reward for the superb airmanship of flight 329's crew. To Captain E. W. Andreasen, 34, and Co-Pilot T. D. Boyle, 28, he handed bonus checks of $10,000 each; to Stewardess Pat Johnson, 28, he gave $2,500. He also added a postscript: United will pay the income taxes on the bonuses...