Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he took over Colonial Airlines, Inc. 13 years ago, Sigmund Janas has been a big little man in U.S. aviation. As president and controlling stockholder of Colonial, he pushed it up from a pipsqueak line to a sizable airline flying 68 million passenger-miles a year over 3...
The rest of the industry nearly dropped its teeth too when it heard that Janas had resigned as the result of a Civil Aeronautics Board report which charged him with 40 violations of the law and of CAB regulations. Even though Colonial has been in the red for the past...
¶ Colonial gave free rides and cut rates to unauthorized passengers, appointed the manager of a Bermuda Hotel its agent so it could give the hotel's employees a special rate.
Imperial Sunset. In London, the British Colonial Office finally admitted that the Empire had become 100 square feet smaller in 1949 when volcanic Falcon Island in the Tongas suddenly slipped under the sea.
Replied the official Trotskyites: "It is American imperialism-not 'armies of Stalinism'-that is waging in Korea the most destructive colonial war of modern times . . ."