Word: airport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue her on a drive into the country. Frenchmen said of her: "Qu'elle est belle!" Reporters noted with approval that in nine public appearances she had worn nine different costumes. At the airport last week, when it was all over, Margaret murmured politely to her hosts: "I've had such a wonderful time...
United State Weather Bureau forecasters at Logan Airport were not interested in Tom Collinses or $20 fines. Coldly statistical, the Bureau said that its thermometer hit 85 degree yesterday at 3:30 p.m. and humidity was up to a moist 61 percent. Record temperature for the same day was 100 degrees...
...Fight, Push. While a Nationalist spokesman was shouting words of defiance, something else was happening around Shanghai's defense perimeter. From his vantage point on the twelfth floor of the massive Picardie Apartments in Shanghai's old French concession, an American looked south over Lunghua airport. Later he described what he saw: "There were sharp bursts of machine-gun fire from the south. Then, within minutes, every road into the city was clogged with retreating Nationalist soldiers and civilians. Soldiers who were walking yanked civilians from their bicycles and pedicabs. The soldiers ran and fought and pushed...
...Four-Star Ovation. Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill...
...morning at week's end, fugitives from Shanghai arrived at Lunghua airport, found the field deserted, a brief message scrawled in chalk across the schedule board. The message read: "Evacuated at midnight." That afternoon, some 750 miles to the south in Hong Kong, an American pilot who had flown one of the last planes out of Shanghai shrugged and said: "Looks like we'll all be going home soon. We're running out of cities to evacuate...