Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines and the sigh of ventilating...
...plane and all in it assumed a wild new relationship. The propeller of the right inboard engine burst from its hub, tore through the upper fuselage with a thunderous bang. The lights went out. The passengers, half deafened as the air rushed from the cabin, were assailed by a sub-zero gale which flung back hot oil and clattering chunks of metal. The wounded, overspeeded engine howled and shook off its mount. The right wing dipped suddenly...
...each of the state's 488,000 qualified Democratic voters, McMath mailed a gaudy, eight-page comic book relating the saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...
Korean Reds in the eastern part of the country, since it was the only direct connecting link with the Russian Trans-Siberian line which terminates at Vladivostok. In his cabin next day, Commander Porter unfolded a map before a small group of dungaree-clad...
...story still takes place in the never-never land of young boys' heads. It is played so broadly by British actors in stock-company style that even the youngest fan can follow the adventures of the cast's only U.S. actor, Bobby (The Window) Driscoll, as Cabin Boy Jim Hawkins...