Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Konvalinka himself helped the West's new private and enterprising propaganda agency, Winds of Freedom,* launch its balloons at the German town of Selb, where the train, with 108 people aboard, had ended its escapade. The leaflets carried pictures of Konvalinka, the train, and a group of 18 of the 31 Czechs who did not go back to Czechoslovakia. They also carried a message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just...
Crackdown. When Ogden reported his findings, police and customs men moved fast. At Hong Kong, customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...
That night he changed to a dark suit to open the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. Next morning, he roared out of town aboard the Independence, bound for Kansas City. For the last hour of the trip, the big plane skimmed low over the newly flooded areas of the Kaw Valley in eastern Kansas. "It looks pretty bad," the President remarked as he landed in his home state. He saw Bess, waiting. "I'm as tired as I can be," he sighed...
...blame for the failure of his own party to carry out its pledges to labor . . . Let us give him the benefit of the doubt." This time nobody leaped to bannerlines, but Dan Tobin's second and loudest toot seemed to put him definitely, if unenthusiastically, aboard the Truman train...
...chemical engineer, inventor (89 patents) and yachtsman; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. During World War I, he organized 7,000 drugstores as merchant marine enlistment centers, gained his greatest fame among amateur deep-sea sailors for his articles and books (Charting My Life) about his adventures aboard the yawl Alice...