Word: clippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. Then, about a year after Patty Matix's death, Platt's wife Regina was killed by a shotgun blast. Her death was ruled a suicide...
...even Kwong, the famous China Clipper, has a Crimson tie of his own--his son, Brad, captained the '84-'85 Harvard men's hockey squad...
...worldwide radio audience listened and 100,000 onlookers cheered on Nov. 22, 1935, as the giant* seaplane China Clipper lumbered out of the waters of San Francisco Bay and headed west. The seven-day, four-stop voyage to Manila by the Pan American World Airways craft marked the first commercial flight across the Pacific and opened a romantic new chapter in aviation history. Romance went to the movies in the 1936 film China Clipper, starring Humphrey Bogart...
United will need approval from the Transportation Department and President Reagan before it can fly Pan Am's routes. That regulatory process could take up to eight months. And while their opinion will not count in the final decision, saddened aviation buffs will undoubtedly decry the loss of the Clipper routes that Pan Am possessed...
...printing company, Clipper Enterprises, said yesterday that distribution of the publication--which has an estimated leadership of between 18,000 and 20,000--was held up because a paper lift broke down. The Independent, which usually arrives on the Harvard campus by 7:30 a.m., did not come until late yesterday afternoon...