Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second day of the hearing at Reading, Pa. a witness walked in with a handful of scored and pitted electrical fittings from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the answer to the most publicized of recent airplane crashes. The cause: a smoking short circuit in the forward baggage compartment of the sleek Connie, where wires from the generators are piped into the pressurized fuselage...
Wrapping it all up, the Civil Aeronautics Administration last week announced its decision. As soon as necessary modifications could be made, mostly in the plane's wiring system, the grounding order would be rescinded. Airline operators expected to have the Constellations back in the air by mid-September...
...hours' deliberation brought the French jury to a verdict of five years of "national indignity," entailing loss of civil rights. But for Flandin's apparent change of heart, the court suspended sentence. Upon this judgment, the left and center Paris press passed its own verdict: "shameful...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "The Chinese Civil War." Speakers: Harley F. MacNair, educator-author (The Real Conflict between China and Japan); Gunther Stein, foreign correspondent-author (The Challenge of Red China...
...always in my way a Civil War veteran," confesses Gertrude Stein-and, indeed, her new book about World War II veterans has much of the quaint, rheumy, talky quality of old soldiers. It is, of course, superimposed upon the girlish extravagances with which Author Stein has perplexed the English-speaking world for a generation...