Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...World War II the U.S. and Brazilian navies fought together against Nazi subs and raiders. The U.S. Fourth Fleet operated out of Brazilian harbors; the Brazilian navy, strengthened by the assignment of eight U.S. destroyer-escorts, carried out valuable convoy duties in the South Atlantic...
Ally's 52-year-old editor, Archibald Johnstone, a onetime London newsman and free-lance writer, who was regarded by friends in Fleet Street as an idealistic left-winger, walked out of his Moscow office one day, never came back. Later, Pravda published a letter from Johnstone announcing his resignation, both as editor and as a British citizen, because of the anti-Soviet bias of British "warmongers." A few months later, Assistant Editor Robert Dagleish also resigned via a letter to Pravda and cast his lot with the Soviets. Lean, keen-eyed W. Richard Jones, assistant news editor...
According to Tripp, teen-agers are too literal-minded to see a fleet in a washtub or a snowstorm in a handful of thrown confetti. And they want their TV villains to be recognizable blackguards. "On Mr. I." says Tripp, "you know that, underneath, the villain has a smile on his face and a sense of humor...
Born. To George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, 32, First Secretary of Britain's Washington embassy, son of the admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland,* and Countess Jellicoe, 31: their third child, first son. Name: Patrick John (Viscount Brocas). Weight...
...scheduled routes from CAB (TIME, May 9, 1949), the line has built its monthly payload to 2,000,000 Ibs. in 1949-50, as much as it carried its entire first year. Last week the freight future looked so bright that Bob Prescott planned to expand his 24-plane fleet. He placed a bid for 18 mothballed Air Force C-46s. But Prescott, who has clawed his way through more than one freight-rate battle with the scheduled passenger lines, thinks he still has plenty of fighting to do. Complained he: "As long as [the passenger lines] can charge...