Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Our markets are inexhaustible so long as we keep the fares down, down, down." Yet after three weeks of bitter wrangling at a Honolulu traffic conference, the 90 airlines from 50 nations who belong to IATA could not agree on any general scheme of fare reductions on world air routes...
Though he is one of the world's richest men (reputed worth: $1 billion), Jean Paul Getty, 66, lives like a man who does not know where his next penury is coming from. For years he kept a diary in which he jotted down every $2.70 dinner check, including...
Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies...
Died. Elliott White Springs, 63, fun-loving textile magnate, author and World War I flying ace; of cancer of the pancreas ; in Manhattan. After bagging twelve German planes and winding up the war as the U.S.'s fourth-ranking ace (after Eddie Rickenbacker, Frank Luke and George Vaughn), Springs...
The cell is bare except for the customary simple furniture, the hopeless messages from past prisoners scrawled on the walls and an overhead light that (perhaps like reason or the world itself) is naggingly off-center. The prisoner's name is Cincinnatus C., and he is under sentence of...