Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midday Wednesday deadline, TIME'S election story went out on teletypesetters to printing plants in Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, where printing and production crews took over, 36 hours later than usual. Meanwhile, exact copies of each page were put on film and acetate page proofs and hustled aboard waiting planes for shipment to TIME'S overseas printing plants...
...Philadelphia, a small Cessna plane stood by to carry the pages to Idlewild Airport, where they were put aboard a flight scheduled to arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry...
Then the general, after his 309th speech since the campaign began, entrained for his New York headquarters. For the first time in grueling weeks, he relaxed at a party aboard the train (up until 3 a.m.). At 7:15, at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, he seemed a little weary. "Let's just stroll," he said to Mamie, and, forgoing his usual military pace, they walked up the ramp to his waiting limousine...
Bound for Norfolk from Rhode Island aboard her ocean-going yacht When & If, Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls...
Everything, Including ... In Tokyo, the Navy announced that Lieut, (j.g.) Carl B. Austin, aboard the carrier Princeton, had attached a kitchen sink to a 1,000-lb. bomb and dropped it on a major North Korean city to let the Reds know "we mean business...