Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bounding Main. Delfino became intrigued by the possibilities of Down Under livestock in 1957, made a deal with the New Zealand government to ship 1,500 steers to the U.S. He chartered an old coal-burning British banana boat with a Panamanian registry, a Filipino captain, Australian officers, Chinese crewmen and Indian and Filipino herdsmen to handle the cattle. But he was in trouble before he cleared port...
...load coal, and then got steaming. Twenty-eight days and one hurricane later, he landed in San Diego, minus 107 cattle and one crew member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen were confined to ship, and they refused to unload the cattle from the boat, which by that time was two feet deep in month-old manure. Delfino, one of his partners, Clarence Peavy, and their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat. In all, Delfino lost about...
...Shivers. In effect, the two crewmen were emissaries of Dr. John Strong, of Johns Hopkins University, who designed the experiment but felt that skilled balloonists were better able to carry it out under the rigors of high-altitude flight. Chief instrument was a 16-in. telescope mounted on top of the gondola and manipulated by remote control by the scientists inside. But they ran into immediate trouble. Take-off had been delayed for three hours by a minor fire in the gondola, and by the time the balloon reached 80,000 ft., Venus was too low to catch...
...crewmen-eight of whom have flown together for at least six years-rightly feel that their assignments are the best in the Air Force, even if they sometimes have to shell out some of their own money on some presidential trips to cover their meager $12-$18 per diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas...
...rebel representatives have been in French prisons for more than three years; four of them, including Ben Bella himself, landed there in a celebrated coup in October 1956, when a Moroccan plane carrying them from Rabat to Tunis was diverted by the French and flown on by its French crewmen to Algiers...