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Word: dadabhoy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buzzing onto the runway of Bombay's Juhu Airport, the single-engined de Havilland Leopard-Moth looked as if it might be powered by rubber bands. But the 1933-vintage monoplane was admirably airworthy. Out of the cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1962 | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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