Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...
...infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...
...Hamonic. A few of the passengers gawked at them from the top deck. Others were at breakfast in the long salon, and many were still in their staterooms. Suddenly a truck on the pier backfired and burst into flame. When the fire reached the gasoline tank, a rolling blaze swept up the ship's side, billowed over the deck...
Portland Head's sweeping beam signalized the state of the nation. In the East, in the full blaze of publicity, returning servicemen from Europe streamed in by the thousands. (One day last week the majestic Queen Elizabeth, which, like her sister Mary, had been an enormous military secret, shuttling across the Atlantic for five years, brought in some 14,000.) On the West Coast, still-censored ports throbbed with the still-censored cargo...
...Paris, the lights which now blaze so brightly may soon be dimmed. In the huge textile mills of Lyons, the spindles are idle. In Belgium the great steel mills in Liege, Charleroi and La Louviere are shut. In many a European village there is ample food, but no way to get it to the hungry cities...