Word: dayton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dayton...
Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a busy egg beater. On an open frame at the tail whirled another but smaller airscrew, in a vertical plane: even the tail surfaces of the what-is-it were busy...
...designer, onetime big-plane builder Igor Sikorsky, knew that fellow airmen no longer regarded the helicopter as a product of aviation's lunatic fringe. This week his craft got formal recognition, when the Army Air Forces (which had tested it at Dayton) announced that it had ordered some helicopters for military...
...bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered yet another Saroyan precedent, refused to utter a word for publication...
...Road is long. It would zigzag from Cape Henry, Va. to Dayton, Ohio, to Paducah, Ky., to St. Joe, Mo. Along its length it is littered with the broken materiel of war and the stiff, broken bodies of German and Italian dead...