Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolivia have seen the export prices of their metals drop from 40% to 50% during the last several years," said Grace, while the average price of U.S. exports to Latin America has risen 11%. ¶ "A positive attitude toward Latin America based upon permanent friendship and not upon 'crash' programs when we get into trouble abroad...
Died. Rear Admiral Leonard B. Southerland, U.S.N., 53, commander of aircraft carriers in the Seventh Fleet; in the crash of a helicopter; on Okinawa...
Where Batista's mailed gauntlet was absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually...
Drawing-room comedies, like drawing-room furniture, tend to be fragile and spindly, and with heavy handling The Pleasure of His Company might easily crash to bits. Happily, the authors have a feeling for tone, and have made the talk-half insulting and half elegant-a nice blend of spit and polish. The Donald Oenslager set is stylish. And with the help of a pleasant cast-Co-Author Skinner, Walter Abel, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Hart, George Peppard-Cyril Ritchard has carried things farther. Acting papa, he has the grace and precision of a lithe figure skater; directing the play...
Unless a U.S.S.R. aircraft crashes outside the Iron Curtain, or crashes with foreign passengers aboard, Soviet Russia never announces a flying accident. Last week a TU-104 jet passenger airliner had aboard four West Germans and a Briton (as well as 16 Chinese Communist officials) when it crashed 380 miles east of Moscow on a flight from Peking to Moscow, killing all 65 aboard. It was the first acknowledged crash of Russia's pride and joy, the Tupolev twinjet, since it went into general service two years...