Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Miller has already applied to CAB for certification as an air-coach operator. Whether he gets it or not, the new rule is not likely to be a death sentence to Air America.; Miller can always retreat to some intrastate route, out of CAB's reach. But CAB's crackdown might kill off more than half the irregulars...
...Accident. Colonial Airlines, whose slogan is "Safety is no accident," last week completed its 19th year without a serious accident, the longest accident-free period for any U.S. airline. Colonial has flown 250,545,622 passenger miles without death or serious injury to any passenger or crew member...
...flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from the man who made Treasure of the Sierra...
Champion. The life-&-death story of a prizefighting heel who becomes a public hero; brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...elders wrote for idle souls, but for the public which we, in our turn, were going to address, the vacation was over. It was composed of men of our sort who, like us, were expecting war and death. For these readers without leisure, occupied without respite with a single concern, there was only one fitting subject . . . their war and their death...