Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was Henry Julian Wadleigh, 44, former State Department economist. A nervous, bushy-haired man, son of an Episcopal minister, father of three small children, Wadleigh lives in a still unfinished log cabin he is building in Vienna...
Eastbound from Okinawa, the big Air Force C-54 droned steadily into the night. At .glowing instrument board and hood-lighted desk the six men of its crew worked. In the cabin the passengers, 31 Spokane-bound soldiers of the 98th Bomber Group, shifted uncomfortably in their bucket seats and tried to sleep...
Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...
...worn clapboard cabin, the 113-year-old black body of Uncle Row Adams lay very still beneath the patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when...
After MacWilliams' rice load had been shoved out on to the ground, supply troops and a group of Chinese army wives began clambering aboard his plane. The manifest for this trip listed a load of 36 pieces of baggage and 36 soldiers. Forcing his way into the packed cabin, he counted 126 crates, bundles and gunnysacks, and 69 people. MacWilliams shouted for the commanding officer and forced him to toss off half the luggage and cut the number of people to 50. "I'm still 5,000 pounds over," he said as he gunned his engines...