Word: clippers
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...nation's modern maritime operations in peacetime have been notably unsuccessful. High point was the days of the great clipper ships like the Flying Cloud (1850), when bold Yankees prowled the seas in bold vessels. But since then -with a few notable exceptions-U.S. ships' owners have been famed neither for energy nor enterprise. Over the whole, the U.S. Government has laid a heavy, bureaucratic and inexperienced hand...
...Songstress Jane Froman, brunette favorite of G.I.s. Since she was injured on her first tour, in the 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash, she has had 18 operations, is "finishing the job" on crutches. ¶ Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope, and Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by full companies of stooges and satellites...
Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...
...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
...kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part owner of two more gambling halls, a California tuna clipper and a string of horses...