Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane No. 29 floated down, too; there had been 44 men -40 paratroopers and four Air Force crew members-aboard the Flying Boxcar. In the space of a minute, each had fought his own struggle for survival or honor...
...condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard one of his own four-engine Sikorsky Clippers to inspect a job of interior decoration done by Pan American Airways...
...Domingo (now Ciudad Trujillo), capital of the Spanish empire in the New World. They were headed for Urabá, on the South American mainland, with 150 settlers eager for land and gold. On one ship was a stowaway: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, an adventurer who came aboard in a provisions barrel to escape his creditors...
...claimed that he had been born in a manger, but Joaquin himself always stoutly maintained that it was in "a covered wagon, pointed West." Both had escaped the fact: Joaquin (pronounced Wah-Keen) was actually, born in bed on a farm near Liberty, Ind. in 1837, and never climbed aboard a covered wagon till he was a strapping six-footer of 14. Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century as the "Poet of the Sierras...
...independents that the independents' share of total output had dropped from 12.5% last April to 3.8%. All manufacturers were putting the pressure on their dealers to take more cars. Many an oldtimer was not afraid to turn them down. But some of the Johnny-come-latelies who climbed aboard the gravy train after the war, and never knew competition, were loaded up too heavily and went out of business. Others resorted to razzle-dazzle gimmicks such as offering cars for "$1 over cost" (special invoices, of course, were made up to show the "cost"), or giving out free gasoline...