Word: ace
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ante & Ace. Last winter, when Larson asked Republic and other would-be operators to ante up, White offered to rent the 450,000-ton blast furnace and 382,000-ton coke plant for a minimum rental of $300,000 a year. "Not enough," snapped Larson. Charlie White decided to stand pat. Larson offered the plant to Republic for $2,500,000 a year and White turned him down flat. Larson then offered to arbitrate the price but White refused. Then, early this month, White played some aces. With only a few weeks for his interim lease to run, he threatened...
After he left Princeton in 1917, Elliott Springs trained as a pursuit pilot, became the nations No. 3 ace in World War I by downing eleven enemy planes. Back home, he continued as a hell-for-leather test pilot and barnstormer until his plane caught fire and crashed in the first U.S. cross-country race. The damage prompted Springs to start a much duller career in the family's mills...
Died. George F. ("Buzz") Beurling, 26, Canada's leading wartime ace (28 Axis planes in 14 fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
Married. Edward Dmytryk, 39, ace Hollywood director (Crossfire) cited (with nine others) for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell whether he was a Communist; and Jean Porter, 24, player in B pictures; each for the second time; in Ellicott City...
Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby last night indicated that he would send Ted Backe, team ace and captain, along with number five man Bud Ager to the Newport competition. Previous summer commitments of the Varsity's two, three, and four men will prevent their play...