Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
...Lewis & Clark expedition set out from its camp near St. Louis, with a crew of 42 men. They carried all the latest astronomical equipment, arms for trouble, and 21 bales of presents-looking glasses, beads, 500 brooches and 432 curtain rings for Indian earrings-total cost: $2,160.41. Two years and 132 days later, the expedition returned from a country as little known as the moon. It came back intact, except for the loss of one man who died, probably of appendicitis, 98 days after the journey began...
...former Michigan mentor who is entering his second year as Crimson basketball tutor has reasons aplenty for his optimism. His crew this year has more height, depth, speed, and experience than last year's five, which won 16 out of 25 contests...
...results of a year's scouting and planning by hard-thinking quarter J. "Anyface" Carodny '48, shown above as he plunged into thought for the vital tally in Saturday's payoff grid encounter, a highly lubricated Plympton Street aggregation outrushed, outpassed, and out-talked a pawky and uncoordinated crew of Yale Daily Newsmen by a 23 to 2 count...
...official sunrise time, they squared off like an alert antiaircraft crew-one watching the sky to the south, the other to the north. A few minutes later, two shots split the morning stillness and two canvasbacks fell into the water. In an hour, they had their bag of four ducks apiece, got back to town in time to shave and get to work...