Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleet of C-475 wheeled west from Hanoi one day last week, carrying more than 1,000 paratroopers (including some Vietnamese) to Dienbienphu. They made a neat drop and took the enemy, about 800 strong, wholly by surprise. After a series of sharp fire fights in the tall elephant grass, the Communists were routed and dispersed. They launched a suicidal counterattack by one company to cover the retreat of their main force. Though the French said they killed more than a hundred of the enemy and that their own losses were much smaller, they did not come off unscathed. Some...
...named editor of News of the World. Thus the combined newspaper circulation now directed by the three Cudlipp brothers is 19,675,002. Reg is regarded by some Fleet Streeters as the "most unlikely fellow" to edit the wildly sensational News of the World, since, as brother Percy says, "Reg is the distinguished one-could have been a bishop...
...young men in Cardiff, Wales, the Cudlipp brothers-Percy, Reginald and Hugh-had a long-standing family bet on which would be the youngest editor of a Fleet Street newspaper. The Cudlipps were sons of a traveling salesman who could not afford to send any of them to college, so they started in journalism early. At twelve, Percy was sending poetry regularly to the South Wales News. Two years later he got a job as a copy boy on the paper, soon after became a reporter. Reg, five years younger, started on Cardiff's Western Mail and South Wales...
Hugh started out in Cardiff as his brothers did, arrived in London, at 20, as features editor of the Sunday Chronicle. He won the family bet when he was named editor of the huge Sunday Pictorial (circ. 5,046,640) at 24. and became the youngest newspaper editor on Fleet Street. This year he also became editorial director of the Pic's sister, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,432,700), biggest daily newspaper in the world. Meanwhile. Percy moved over to the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504) in 1938, two years later became its editor...
Ethiopia, landlocked until 1952, when it got two big ports in Eritrea through federation, will soon have the start of a merchant fleet. A Dutch shipbuilding firm has orders for four seagoing tugboats...