Word: carrier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Davis moved fast. Perhaps California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight would grant a brief stay. But the governor, who was just preparing to inspect the Navy's aircraft carrier Hancock in San Francisco Bay, was out of reach of the telephone. Davis messaged the ship by Navy radio to turn on a television set for Knight, then arranged with a TV station to broadcast a tape-recorded plea to the governor. Knight got the message. At 9:02 he called Davis by radiotelephone, granted an hour's stay. Six minutes later, Davis presented a writ of habeas...
...death chamber Burton Abbott looked straight ahead, his face impassive. The invisible gas rose. His head inched back, his feet twitched. He died, as on the carrier the governor hung up the phone...
After seventeen years of broadcasting only to the University, within the next four to six weeks WHRB will become an FM station, at 107.1 MCS., covering the Metropolitan Boston area, while the carrier current operation will continue at 550 KC. We received our construction permit from the FCC on February...
Dusting off his old five-star uniform, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, momentarily dropped his affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
...MEXICAN AIR TREATY, signed after eleven years of negotiation, will set up seven reciprocal routes between major U.S. and Mexican cities, provide nonstop nights between Mexico City and Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans. The treaty gives each nation right to designate one carrier over each route, will touch off new battles among U.S. airlines seeking rich tourist runs to Mexico City (only U.S. lines now flying into Mexico: Pan American and American...