Word: airport
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James K. Dobbs, millionaire Memphis auto dealer and airport restaurateur, has reported a strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture, 'I'm sitting beside...
Weather permitting, the flyers will leave Bedford Airport at 7 a.m. tomorrow. They will use a Stinson three-place, a Stinson four-place, a two-place Aronca Chief, and two two-place Aronica champions for the one hundred mile journey. Members of the Smith Flying Club will welcome them on their expected 8 a.m. Northampton arrival...
After breakfasting at Smith, the flyers will return to the airport to man their planes in a "spot landing" contest. A pair of argyle seeks knitted by one of the members of the Smith Flying Club will be awarded the winner...
Isaac did not know what a "convalescent camp" was; to him it meant school. At twelve, he could neither read nor write, and school sounded wonderful. At Tunis airport, Isaac and 27 other children from Tunisian slums boarded a Dutch DC-3. Their destination: the convalescent camp for Jewish children at Holmestrand, in Norway...
That night, while the weather lay thick and foul over the Norwegian coast, the control tower at Oslo airport received a garbled message from the DC-3's pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...