Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time to see Emoto vanish out the plane door, to fall 2,300 ft. into the Inland...
Luckily for Emoto's bride and the 25 other passengers and crew of the DC-3, Emoto's departure was not quite as spectacular as he intended. In his canvas bag were found two sticks of dynamite. In the plane's toilet were 25 more sticks, a burned fuse and a percussion cap that had failed to explode...
Design for Conveniences. A graduate of Atlanta's Emory University ('41), Chandler spent four years in the Navy before going to work in paper production in 1946. He was a sales vice president of Union Bag and a director of 13 companies (including Standard Packaging) when Wall Street Financier Edward Elliott in 1955 asked him to write a report on ailing Crowell-Collier, in which Elliott held a sizeable interest. After recommending that the magazines be killed, Chandler became temporary chairman. When Elliott turned to Standard (he owns about 5% of the stock), he put Chandler in command...
Northern Democrats called Dwight Eisenhower a doddering old conservative when, during the 1958 campaign, he declared that liberal Democrats were headlong "spenders." But last week, with the election and Democratic victory well in the bag, Washington was doing a double take at a liberal spending program that proved that Ike had been guilty of understatement...
...scouts could not possibly hope to find a full bag of authentic Chinese, settled for any vaguely Oriental features. Dancer Denise Quan is really Canadian of Chinese origin. Shawnee Smith is American Indian (Hopi) and English. Vicki Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School) of Filipino-English origin. Mary Huie, of Chinese origin, was working as a clerk for Revlon when a scout spotted her on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue (she thought she was facing an attempted pickup when the stranger approached her with: "How would you like to be in a Broadway show...