Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday morning, schoolchildren, housewives, servicemen, office workers poured out into streets, yards, roadsides and public beaches not three miles from the launch pad. The red ball signifying test imminent was hoisted. The crash boats plowed out. The observation planes, two old World War II B-17s and a new Cessna, circled above, gaining altitude. At 10:42 the gantry was rolled away from the rocket; at 11:32 it was moved back again, then finally away; at 11:44 the last "umbilical" cable connecting the rocket to the disconnect pole was slipped free. Seconds later the first traces of white...
...birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese dolls to a Cessna airplane), Pitchman Todd conned 18,000 suckers in evening wear into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity and effrontery flamed...
Lieut. Colonel Smith admired Colonel Stewart's fine World War II combat record* and his ability as an actor. But why, with 1,900 other colonels up for promotion, was Stewart advanced to one-star rank? Colonel Stewart, though he flies his own Cessna 310, had put in only 39 days of reserve training since World War II; yet he had been assigned to a key M-day billet as deputy director of operations at SAC headquarters. Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, Air Force personnel boss, disagreed with the Senator. "Stewart has made a great contribution...
...truth seemed to be that the Socialists themselves did not quite know. Erich Ollenhauer was flying about Germany in a rented, five-seater yellow Cessna, accompanied by his plump wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia...
...Figures. In Tampa, Reporter Dana Cessna, rushing to a Chamber of Commerce meeting, could find only a twelve-minute parking place, left a note explaining his business, and pointed out that all the one-hour spots were taken, returned to find a ticket pinned to the reply: "Don't park in a twelve-minute place unless you're attending a twelve-minute meeting...