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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late pappy Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Off the Cuff | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Washington, Federal Communications Commission agents tracked down two teen-agers who had been sending false radio distress signals over airplane frequencies, once had ten planes and four crash boats out looking for a fictitious ditched plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...airplane crash on the cloud-draped slopes of windy Orizaba, eight Mexicans and eight U.S. citizens had died together. They had also died in the same cause. All were workers of the U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (foot & mouth disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Love & Hate | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...very night of the crash, on the alpine slopes of Orizaba (18,000 ft.), things began going wrong. Mexicans were first to reach the wreckage. They were presently joined by a U.S. rescue party including seven soldiers-some armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Love & Hate | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Airman-Movieman Howard Hughes, who claims that the United Aircraft Corp. was responsible for his near-fatal plane crash two years ago (their propellers were faulty, he charges), set a value of $250,000 on the damages to himself, $238,000 on damages to his Hughes Tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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