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...American clipper America, which had flown off 13 days and 3 hours earlier from LaGuardia Field into the east, returned from the west last week. It had flown around the world, inaugurating the first round-the-world air service. Pan Am will operate two regular flights a week-one west from San Francisco, one east from New York. Domestic airlines will complete the transcontinental gap in the circle. Globe-girdling fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Globe-Girdlers | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Eddie Davis, the iron man of last fall's football team, may be playing right tackle for the Boston Yanks when next September rolls around. Last month after watching a re-run of the Harvard-Yale football game movies, Clipper Smith, head-coach of the Boston pro-football club, came up with a fat offer calculated to make Davis a Yank lineman when the 1947 National Professional Football League opens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Yanks Offer Davis Contract To Play Pro Football in September | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

...these marvels were some of the new postwar gardening tools and gadgets which were finally being produced in quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Step Right Up, Folks | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Sabula (Iowa) Gazette was able to note that "Virtus Peterson of near Green Island called at the Gazette and would like to buy about half a bushel of rye seed." The Chenoa (Ill.) Clipper-Times announced that the second grade was enjoying the reading of Billy Whiskers at the Circus, which was brought to school by Bobby Ritter. The Cassville (Wis.) American reported: "Wilbur K. Buschbom, otherwise Billy, returned Tuesday morning from the Carolinas. He is a cowboy rider and does trick roping. A fascinating, if dangerous life? Young Billy says, 'It beats workin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Election Week | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Right Pew, Wrong Church | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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