Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow's in design or in direct combat, but whether or not it can perform its mission. The Russian bomber...
...potbellied Lebanese harbor pilot wearing a tarboosh wheezed up the gangway. Smoke belched from the stack as the engine-room crew poured the oil to their boilers. The U.S. Navy transport General Leroy Eltinge was about to cast off from a shabby Beirut dock, when suddenly from the deck an officer called down that Pfc. Lubinsky was missing. The voice boomed again, and on the dock an officer cracked: "They mean former Private First Class Lubinsky." Finally the ship cast off, and was inching slowly away when the deck officer called down: "We found him." "Where?" asked the officer...
...temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below 90°. Work was impossible after noon, and the film had to be stored in cracked ice. On top of the heat there were insects, malaria, dysentery. By the third day, cast and crew were dropping like flies. In 4½ months of shooting, 30 doctors handled 960 sick calls. Eddie Albert had sunstroke and spent several days in delirium. Director John Huston got a foot infection and broke out in sties. Producer Zanuck developed shingles when it was all over-possibly aggravated by the realization that...
Managerial duties vary with the individual sport. The football manager for example, does no varsity scheduling but supervises the activities of I6 assistants. The baseball manager plans the annual Southern spring trip; he handles all schedules and business arrangements. The crew manager schedules races for the second and third boats only...
...undisclosed number of crew members also died in the disaster. There were no survivors...