Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antonio, Texas...
GOOD Friday morning was cold, brisk and sunny. Lieut. Colonel John S. Growdon of San Antonio moved his task force of Patton tanks through the South Korean 1st Division lines a few miles north of Seoul and headed for the D.Z. (drop zone) at Munsan...
After years of running a flying school at San Antonio and starting a semi-scheduled airline, he landed an airmail route between Brownsville, Amarillo and Houston, sold out in 1937 to Braniff. When World War II began, Long organized four Texas flying schools at the request of the armed forces ("We pitched the textbooks out the window and taught with planes and parts"), turned out 20,000 pilots and 3,500 mechanics. In 1945 he got a CAB certificate, and began flying passengers between Amarillo and Houston. Later, he bought six surplus DC-3s, began using the name Pioneer...
Charm School Notes. In San Antonio, Policeman Joe Melody denied that he had kissed a housewife three times: she was not wearing her false teeth at the time of the alleged offense, he said, and a toothless woman does not constitute "a kissable object...
...heart of Texas, folks play for big stakes. When Andrew Tatsch was given a Hereford calf by his father, he decided to raise it into the finest steer there ever was; last week, his year-old, 1,000-lb., underslung steer "Shorty" won the grand championship at the San Antonio Livestock Show. After a San Antonio brewer bought Shorty for $21,000. * 13-year-old Cattleman Tatsch splendid in a satin shirt and cowpoke boots, took a bow in the center ring, announced he would use the money to buy a ranch...