Word: abell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
...through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than experience, a few skilled men like Malraux's friend Abel Guidez, who brought down six Fascist planes in the early weeks of the war, was eventually shot down near Bilbao after he had left the air force and was flying a French commercial-line passenger plane. Intense and nervous, with limited flying experience himself, Malraux made 65 flights over Fascist...
Some characters are called by their real names. Puig was a Barcelona anarchist killed early in the Civil War; Captain Hernández was actually in command at Toledo. Others are thinly disguised: Abel Guidez is called Gardet in the novel; Ramón Sender, leading Spanish novelist, is the original of Manuel...
Racket Busters (Walter Abel, Humphrey Bogart; TIME...
Racket Busters (Walter Abel, Humphrey Bogart; TIME...