Word: airings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Great Adventure, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...more distant future is hardly likely to see either a repetition of World War II's Pacific naval battles or such mass bombing raids as the air assaults on Germany. Great fleets on the sea or in the air will be canceled out by the guided bomb, the guided missile, the proximity fuze, he thinks...
...delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets or guided air-to-air missiles armed with proximity fuzes . . . The days of mass bombing may be approaching their...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...
Vaudeville & Rodeo. Setting the touring pace is Bob Hope, whose travels combine good will with handsome personal profit. In the last year, carrying along a band and a bill of vaudeville acts, Comedian Hope has covered 50,000 air miles, 65 cities, collected $1,000,000 from more than 750,000 wide-eyed fans. Cowboy Star Gene Autry spends almost six months a year on money-making one-night stands and rodeo appearances. Recently Jane Russell proved in a 30,000-mile trip that Britain and the Continent will also pay well for a close look at the real thing...