Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good engines, American Airlines' Aztec, New York-to-Mexico City luxury liner, purred steadily on course for Dallas, 300 miles southwest...
...served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...
...council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy Commission, and its contractor,, the General Electric Co. Late one night, Mayor McDonald labored over the manuscript of his first public speech, delivered it next day in a cold drizzle to 45 citizens and the American Legion band. Said he: "Our local government here is not a democracy. It could be called a benevolent dictatorship...
...word was spread thoroughly. In Manhattan this week members of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, meeting in a "peace rally," were advised to join "Parents-Teachers associations, the Elks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and church groups" to "work for peace...