Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plane. United Air Lines will start daily nonstop DC-6 flights on April 26 between New York and Chicago "for men only." The Executive will take off from New York at 5 p.m. E.S.T., while a similar eastbound flight will leave Chicago at 5 p.m. C.S.T. The only females aboard: two stewardesses, who will provide the latest market quotations, business publications, steak dinners and soft slippers. Cigar-and pipe-smoking, barred on most flights out of deference to women, will be "quite in order...
When the presidential plane Columbine landed at Washington last week, the distinguished Frenchmen aboard were far from happy. Premier René Mayer had started the week by threatening to resign, a tactic that persuaded the French Assembly into accepting a new $220 million emergency loan. This delayed the start from Paris, and the plane's pilot had flown through a storm instead of circling it in order to make connections with the Columbine in New York...
Died. Captain Warner R. Edsall, 48, skipper since last September of the battleship Missouri; of a heart attack; aboard his ship in Sasebo harbor, Japan...
...career as Hollywood's No. 1 Bachelor Girl. In 1939, a Danish-born theatrical agent named Frederick Brisson was crossing the Atlantic on the overcrowded, submarine-dodging S. S. Washington. His deck chair was just outside the main lounge where The Women, the only film aboard, was played and replayed endlessly throughout the stormy crossing. Says Brisson: "I'd hear those screaming voices. I couldn't stand it. After the 12th or 13th day, I went in to see it. I saw every other performance until we docked in New York. By then, I liked...
...October. But with Hatoyama and his dissident Liberals running on a splinter ticket, Yoshida may get beaten. The opposition is scattered, but might unite in a coalition headed by Hatoyama or by one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Progressive Party leader, who, as Foreign Minister, signed Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri, and was convicted as a war criminal...