Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's Ferrying Command for delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager of the new F.O., got him on the radio telephone, told him he was wanted...
...Cuba and Peru) have sent teams to compete in the international military jumping events. Some of its promised features...
...York on a visit from the land of fast political football, eight-year-old "Papo," son of Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista, ran into the real thing, promptly took it up in deadly earnest for photographers...
...killer. Last month, when he and his good friend Anita de la Vega spent a pleasant week in Costa Rica settling a border dispute, he remembered the wording of his own constitution. Before leaving the country he obtained the formal consent of his Cabinet. This time he went to Cuba to see his "eye doctor" about a little trouble. But this time he neglected to get the Cabinet's consent...
Before the President's plane had decanted him in Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...