Word: beechcrafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duluth Radio-TV Executive Dalton LeMasurier, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 45, were accustomed to traveling as they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
Down Through Snow. The Beechcraft dipped and fell, slid heavily into a steep mountainside, shearing off the starboard engine and wing. As flames lashed at the cabin, the LeMasuriers scrambled to safety, narrowly escaped the exploding fuel tanks. Then a rainstorm squall broke and put out the fire. Although they did not know it, the LeMasuriers had crashed only a mile upslope from a sheepherder's camp on Ferris Mountain (9,500 ft.), 40 miles north of Rawlins...
...important man: Arturo Espaillat, now New York consul general for the Dominican Republic. Around the first of March Murphy quit his job, saying he had got a high-paying charter proposition. The records show that on March 5 he arranged to rent (for $800) a twin-engined Beechcraft, registered as N 68100, at the Linden, N.J. airport. At a field on nearby Staten Island, he had it fitted to carry extra gasoline tanks. On March 12 at 9:44 a.m., he took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns...
...Unsuspicious Circumstances." Thiem reported that Hodge had charged the state $5,267 for his suite in Springfield's St. Nicholas Hotel, used state funds to pay for maintenance of his own Beechcraft Bonanza and twin-engined monoplane. Hodge angrily barred newsmen from his records. But Thiem had foresightedly jotted down the numbers of some checks he had spotted in Hodge's office. From microfilmed copies of the checks in the state treasurer's office, Thiem was able to track down the recipients. He reported that one $9,000 check had been made out to Chicago Attorney Thomas...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...