Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanksgiving. The first light broke into the dirty black sky hours later. Mays thought he saw a sea gull. He looked again, saw the flashing lights of a Coast Guard twin-engined amphibian Albatross. The men tried to get up, to signal the plane, but in a moment it was gone. The raft drifted on. As the clouds broke before the sun. Fleming and Mays looked at their watches: 8:40. Then they looked at each other: their eyes were puffed, their faces red, their lips swollen, their hands cut and bruised. Yet, somehow, now that daylight had come, they...
River estuary to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao, and before anyone could say "Where's the Dragon Lady?" found themselves heading for Red China in an ancient, twin-engined amphibian PBY, Bush piloting, Travel Agent Sullivan at his side...
...echelon reshuffle at the auto-and aircraft-parts company. He succeeded his father, Roy C. Ingersoll, 71, who relinquished the presidency after six years, but remains as board chairman and chief executive officer. Young Ingersoll joined the company in 1939, during the war spark-plugged BW's amphibian-tank project, became an administrative vice president...
Military planes came anyway. A French B-24 flew from Viet Nam and began circling the scene. From carrier decks roared eight U.S. Navy Skyraiders convoying a Philippine-based Air Force amphibian. The Reds, bustling about 100 yards away on tiny Taichow Island, did nothing as the U.S. amphibian, with fighter cover circling overhead, landed on the water, loaded the survivors and flew them off to a Hong Kong hospital...
...least 17 people lost their lives. It might have been much worse but for the prompt help of the U.S. Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside 5,000 Bavarian policemen and 3,000 frontier guards for a week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode...