Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names were mentioned in the Senate, but Isbrandtsen Co. Inc.'s rough, tough President Hans Isbrandtsen did not deny that the ship in question was his Flying Cloud. Isbrandtsen didn't like the author of the letter, though. He called him a "crackpot." This week, however, Senator Magnuson was planning to investigate the sailor's charges...
Last year, the Flying Cloud and the Flying Arrow (another Isbrandtsen ship) were fired on and damaged while running the Nationalist blockade of Communist China (see cut). Because the U.S. did not recognize the blockade, Isbrandtsen demanded, in full-page ads in New York newspapers, that the State Department uphold freedom of the seas and give him protection by U.S. warships. Earlier, Isbrandtsen ships had been seized in the East Indies by the Dutch (over export license technicalities) and in the Mediterranean by the Egyptians (on suspicion of carrying war goods to Israel). The Dutch have since made a settlement...
...zone beyond, destruction would be-as atomic scientists describe it-"severe." As the mushroom cloud drifted off, in the cluttered, congested, trapped island of Manhattan, storms of fire would lick furiously across the stricken city. An estimated minimum of 75,000 people would be dead, 75,000 would be dying...
...Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys' we had traveled with the past few weeks." Then the jeep entered a thick cloud of dust and the next thing Bell knew he was lying on the road and hearing a Navy corpsman say, "This guy is pretty bad." Whether the jeep had hit a mine or collided with an oncoming amtrac, no one knew. Bell had a broken arm as well as chest...
...Gisborne and Dr. Schaefer selected a notorious cloud-breeding area in North Idaho . . . [and] had a plane ready to make the great experiment. But . . . the weather stubbornly refused to cooperate...