Word: copters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked for the institute, the other was just a friend. No romances, they said...
...Nations command, are leaving for Kaesong fully conscious of the importance of these meetings to the entire world. We are proceeding in good faith to do our part to bring about an honorable armistice . . ." The word "honorable" was heavily underscored. Supreme Commander Ridgway accompanied the admiral to his 'copter. As the machine rose, Joy, responding to the correspondents' farewells, crossed his fingers and rolled his eyes heavenward. Ridgway said to the newsmen, with unaffected earnestness: "This is a historic moment...
...marked with a large letter W. The eggbeaters settled down. Three uniformed North Koreans stepped forward, one a woman with glasses and long, straight, black hair. They had three jeeps, one Russian-made, the other two U.S. Army jeeps, one with the U.S. markings still visible. While the 'copter crews stayed with their machines, the U.N. negotiators and their aides got into the vehicles...
Kaman Aircraft was launched in a West Hartford, Conn, basement, where Charles H. Kaman, 31, worked out a design for a helicopter that won a naval competition in 1949. It was a liaison copter that could be converted to a flying ambulance. Last week Kaman had more than $2,000,000 in military orders for his four-placeHOK-i and the smaller HTH-i, both of which have twin rotors with inter-meshing blades...