Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show is now going through a period of editing which, it is to be hoped, will spare such sketches as "Barnaby Beach," "The Old Soft Shoe," and "Kenosha Canoe" from the ravages of the blue pencil and will shelve some others that suffer from the sins of humorless vulgarity and the punchless obvious...
Selection. Near Long Beach, Calif., Tony and Henry Freese thought fast when their milk-and-butter truck caught fire, quenched the flames with milk, saved the butter...
Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...
Visibility was little more than a mile when Colonel William H. Councill sent his pencil-slim Lockheed P-80 fighter whooshing down the runway at Long Beach, Calif. With its turbojet propulsion, the Shooting Star could cover a mile in six seconds. Councill climbed out of the mists, turned on his oxygen, headed for New York. Cities seven miles beneath him began to flash past: La Junta, Colo. (870 miles) in 1 hr. 38 min.; Salina, Kans. (1,190 miles) in 2 hr. 9 min.; Chanute Field, Ill. (1,700 miles) in 3 hr. 2 min. A tail wind pushed...
Only 4 hr. 13 min. and 26 sec. after leaving Long Beach, the stocky, 34-year-old veteran of South Pacific combat buzzed LaGuardia Field. He had flown at an average speed of 584 m.p.h., trimmed 64 min. off the B-29's transcontinental record, only seven weeks old. Councill's first words as he pushed the canopy back: "Who the hell's got a drink...