Word: commando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...
...Commando weighed off the runway, climbed heavily, went into a left-hand turn. From the pilot went a terse message to the control tower...
...them. I am going to make the Huk a capitalist. I am going to set up a carpentry shop and let the Huks run it." The Huks began to come in, at first a trickle, then by the hundreds. Many signed up with Magsaysay as special anti-Huk commando teams ("When I turned over arms and ammunition to them, I wondered to myself if I was doing right"). Some 400 made off to the new promised land of Mindanao...
...Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...lead of the profitable Hal Roach TV film operation (TIME, Oct. 29). Republic Pictures cleared its throat, announced that it had set aside $1,000,000 to enlarge its sound stage space for TV film production and to finance its first pictures for television (one character already on tap: Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe). Next day, Monogram Pictures fell in line, announced that it had set up a wholly owned subsidiary to make movies for TV. Still to be heard from: any of Hollywood's major studios, now riding the crest of a new movie box-office...