Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
...time (ten years as heavyweight champion) Joe has grossed $2,815,000. Taxes have taken a lot, but so has his investing: everything he has touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from women, and mostly wanting money...
...bulk of North American's business, however, is still in new military planes. Besides its twin-fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...
Recent accounts of Mt. Etna's new eruptions bring to mind the time--three years and six days ago--when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in similar fashion but was little publicized because it was responsible for the crippling of a medium bomber outfit of which I was a member...
...every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits to a tragic disintegration which Chaplin himself hardly ever surpassed. The peasant's face, his suddenly unfamiliar country and the roar of the rickety bomber, throughout this beautifully filmed scene, combine to make a heart-tearing embodiment of man's predicament and man's hope...