Word: clippers
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...promise from shipowners to load only at dockside in the U.S. Despite such make-work arrangements, shipping men expect the LASH vessels to open a new era in ocean cargo transportation. If so, the Lash Italia could be the most important new American ship since the first Yankee clipper...
...help of an antique dealer to a banker's house in Florida. Eldred flew to Florida and, taking two extra seats in the plane, returned home with his antique. Before Eldred had time to remount the weather vane, a man appeared at his door offering a handsome clipper ship model to replace what he thought was Eldred's missing square-rigger. Police arrested the salesman for having stolen Eldred's original vane. There remained the perversely comforting knowledge that in an era of car thieves and purse snatchers, a genuine, if criminal passion for authentic folk...
Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American?radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed...
...final approach to Cairo, the demolition expert asked Stewardess Augusta Schneider for some matches. Handing him a pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected...
...brought back to the terminal, and Pan Am rushed to roll out its only other service-ready 747 to take over the flight. "It's marvelous," said Mrs. David Susskind, wife of the TV producer. "A dozen bathrooms and no engines." The switch involved painting out the name Clipper Victor on the second 747's nose and replacing it with Clipper Young America, the grounded plane's name...