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Breslin writes, "O'Neill did not know that he was using such terribly unsure methods as instinct, a little anger and a boxcar full of common sense. Soon the word was getting back to O'Neill, mirror fashion: impeachment was in the wind. Slyly, O'Neill labeled such talk "premature." He did not want a hasty vote that Nixon would probably win; once the facts were marshaled, he was sure the votes would be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-Mortem: The Unmaking of a President | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...little B & M train wheezes into the station, picks up three or four people, and heads for Boston. Early signs of construction lie along the right-of-way. Junk yards and warehouses an little further off. A solitary boxcar of the Bangor and Aroostook with a full load of potatoes peeking out an open door. The conduct appears, and collects...

Author: By William Englund, | Title: In Search of Oak Grove | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

...need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed the C-119 "Flying Boxcar" transport. At his death, he was one of the largest stockholders in IBM and chairman of both Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. and Fairchild Hiller Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 12, 1971 | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...charred, her hoist no longer works, and big red letters spelling EXPLOSIVES have been painted on her sides. In the early morning hours two gangs of longshoremen reported for duty. They had been given two days of crash orientation on the care and handling of gas. Run through a boxcar filled with tear gas, they learned how to apply atropine (the antidote to nerve gas) and how to fit gas masks. The job was not a lark for the 32 longshoremen, but neither were they particularly worried. Said W.Z. Vereen, who with his colleagues relishes the $17-per-hour double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Cut Holes and Sink 'Em | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible use of its ACLG on the Air Force's C-119 "Flying Boxcar" transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Landing Without Wheels | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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