Word: corsairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome, melancholy face warm with affection. When his glance had embraced them all, Charles Munch picked up his baton, smiled and said: "Maintenant, relax." A moment later, Boston's 50-year-old Symphony Hall was rocking joyously with the rehearsal of Hector Berlioz' bounding overture, The Corsair...
...giving examples of the strong personality which dominated any discussion, Allen takes his readers behind the scenes of financial manipulations, to the closed door sessions in Morgan's library or on board his great yacht Corsair. Here, are some famous deals--among others the formation of U. S. Steel and the attempts to meet the 1907 panic among others--guided by the powerful hand of Pierpont Morgan. Through this description of Morgan's character in action, the reader discovers the nature of the financial world of the times, its temper and its spirit...
Dispersal. Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp., now making F4U-5 Corsair fighter-bombers for the Navy at Stratford, Conn, will move to a Navy plant at Dallas, Tex. to build F6U-1 jet-propelled Pirates. While the move is under way, Corsair production will be tapered off at Stratford and jet production started at Dallas. The shift, which will take several months to complete, is under the Government's policy to disperse war plants. Other reasons: Dallas has better flying weather and a larger airfield for experimental flights...
Died. Margaret ("Marge") Hurlburt, 32, onetime Ohio schoolteacher and wartime WASP who last March piloted a Navy Corsair fighter to a women's international speed record (337.635 m.p.h.); when her plane crashed while stunting in a July 4 air show; in Decorah, Iowa...
Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale...