Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...
...gruel of hints, hopes and predictions, Taft workers swarmed through the nation, buttonholing politicians, signing up state managers, and thumping urgent drums. The Taft bandwagon, they now tell the hesitant, is already at the finish line, but they are willing to wait another ten seconds for latecomers to get aboard. The Taft followers do not win votes by direct promises of jobs. "We just tell prospective delegates that when it comes time to distribute the patronage, of course we'll want advice from our real friends," explains a top Taft organizer...
...mining Ipoh, the airport was sealed off by 300 troops, while men of the 12th Lancers surrounded him in a body, led him to an armored car. "What, another one!" said Lyttelton, climbing aboard. "Close the hatch," said the officer in charge. Lyttelton saw the tin district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five days...
William Hegener, a Yale student on his way home to Sarasota, Florida, was aboard the ill fated plane...
...Florida-bound flight crashed seven minutes after take-off, killing all 56 persons aboard. In the rest of the country, the weekend storm and cold snap that followed caused 60 other deaths. Highway accidents accounted for most of these...