Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After more than five hours, a 14-ship rescue flotilla from five nations converged on the scene, and the Swiss freighter Celerina began taking on survivors. Three on the raft died of injuries. Twenty-one others, most of them painfully burned, were airlifted by helicopter to a Canadian aircraft carrier. Of the 76 persons aboard the plane, 48 were saved...
...more than the legal eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying the air carrier certificate of a dormant nonsked...
...small eggs that scramble surprisingly well. Coo-coo comedy is intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
Strangers in the City. Life in Spanish Harlem is explicitly examined in this intelligent social shocker, written and directed by Rick Carrier...
...Airways, to form the world's largest line. It would have routes throughout the U.S. and to all continents, a combined fleet of 125 jetliners and sales exceeding $800 million. Next step would be to persuade the Civil Aeronautics Board and the White House that one big U.S. carrier is necessary to withstand the competition of heavily subsidized state-owned foreign airlines. A shadow over the possible TWA-Pan Am combination is the attitude of elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes, who was forced by creditors in 1960 to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust and is now trying...