Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Air Secretary Lovett took one look at U.S. defense nakedness, another at the tremendous lesson of Nazi air victories in Europe, and fought a campaign to get top priorities for a big U.S. bomber fleet. Then, holding down impulsive Air Chief "Hap" Arnold with a gentle hand, he skillfully got the air corps raised to the status of a semi-independent air force...
...Communists were obviously hurt. Their propaganda complained that Van Fleet's attacks were "openly inviting war" - a pointless accusation, in view of the fact that it was agreed when the truce talks started that the war would continue until a cease-fire was signed & sealed...
Pugnacious General James Van Fleet "was eager for the Communists to jump off with their offensive - if they were ever going to. Said he grimly: "A Communist offensive would give us the chance to slaughter them. That way we could get them in wholesale lots, and not have to kick them piecemeal out of the hills the way we are doing...
...Eighth Army's General James A. Van Fleet told of 17 days' hard fighting on the eastern front-with three U.N. divisions pitted against 83,000 Reds-as a result of which "partial exhaustion" had been inflicted on the Reds in that sector...
...last week a fleet of white trucks loaded with 440 cops sped away from Tokyo's metropolitan police station. The arrival of the raiders at Red headquarters near Meiji Park sent men & women party members tumbling out of the doors to be collared outside. Inside, sitting calmly at a clean-topped desk, was Eiichi Iwata, a high party official. "I knew you were coming," he told the raiders. "I've developed a terrific sixth sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer...