Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Headle, 52, who trained U.S. Army flyers in World War I, and as successor to the late Wiley Post as Lockheed Aircraft's top test pilot tested some 300 different types of plane (including the P-38 Lightning on its maiden flight) with out once having to bail out ; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif...
There last week, after eight days of unconsciousness, the young gunner revived. His only injuries: a bruised thigh, a lacerated ear, a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach. What had he done when he finally realized that he could not bail out? What could he do? He had unsnapped his parachute, sat down in his gunner's seat, lighted a cigaret-and waited...
Worrywarts gloomed that the market might not perform as expected, because it seldom has, during the war. For example, when the fall of the Philippines forecast a long, bitter war, the market started up. Reason: the war was bound to bail out many a floundering company. Stocks fell soon after Dday, at the prospect of an early peace, fell again when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine. President Roosevelt's death gave them a lusty boost (TIME, April 23). Perversely, in the fa ce of an end to the German war, they have risen ever since...
...McCarey, handsome, Irish writer-director who won two 1944 Hollywood Oscars for Going My Way, was booked in Los Angeles on a drunken driving charge, jailed for 5½ hours, released on $250 bail, ordered to appear for trial April 25. His description on the police blotter: "belligerent...
...cheaply enough to compete with Canadian and Argentine wheat, the Wickard plan might reduce U.S. wheat production to 800 million bu. a year v. the 1.1 billion bu. 1944 crop. But the Federal Government would not have to spend millions of dollars, as it did before the war, to bail out farmers by buying up surplus wheat. Day after Wickard spoke, the price of wheat broke...