Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain went on growing, but not so quietly as at first. Steam burst from its top, digging a small crater which filled with mud and water. Steadily the explosions grew more violent; the steam smelled of sulphur and broke out strongly enough to toss rocks high in the air. But still there was no hot lava or other volcanic matter. The rocks and sand thrown out were just local material torn loose by the steam...
...mentalist," titillated his TV audience by reading what was in the mind of Rhode Island's Congressman Aime Forand, who was standing on the steps of the Capitol, 225 miles away. (Forand was thinking: "American citizenship is priceless.") Last week, Dunninger read the mind of a Trans-ocean Air Lines pilot circling 5,000 feet above the Radio City studio. (His thought was a commercial plug for the company.) These feats, Dunninger solemnly avers, were accomplished for the entertainment of TV audiences without the use of "supernatural powers." But they have given an almost supernatural boost to his Bigelow...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, which has often cautioned "irregular" airlines against becoming too regular, last week got tough. It ordered California's Standard Air Lines, one of the biggest irregulars, to stop flying by July 20. It also asked the Department of Justice to start criminal proceedings against Standard for willful violation of the Civil Aeronautics Act,*the first such action in CAB history...
...hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocky President Stan Weiss, the decision seemed like a conspiracy between the major scheduled airlines and CAB to get rid of Standard and its profitable cut-rate air coach business. Cried he: "We're going to take those so & so's into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get a stay...
...keyed lighting and some ominous shots of stormy Florida coast, nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...