Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Georgia's Muscogee County Airport, nine miles northeast of Columbus, a twin-engined plane circled and headed in for a landing. At the controls sat Delta Air Lines operations vice president, George R. Gushing, 48, a veteran pilot. Gushing and seven other Delta men (including Legal Adviser Lindley W. Camp, 52, longtime political crony of the late Gene Talmadge) were inspecting a network of newly acquired Georgia-Texas routes...
...first of these conferences was held last week in Philadelphia, and the last of the three will take place in Columbus, Ohio, next month, with a Pacific coast delegation scheduled to attend...
...year old French freestyler, unofficial holder of the world's record in the 200-meter swim, came over here on the Queen Elizabeth under the auspices of the A.A.U. to compete in the National championships in Columbus, Ohio, next week where Bill Smith of the Buckeyes will probably he his main rival...
When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...