Word: dumbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Dumbo, the flying elephant...
...Strike. The decision did not solve all Walt's problems. The day Pinocchio was released, Germany marched into Poland. The foreign market-in which Disney expects to make about half his take-was cut at least in half. The same problem met Dumbo and Bambi. Meanwhile, Disney had his famous strike. Whatever the rights of the affair-Walt maintained that he was being persecuted by the Communists, the union leaders said he was running a sweatshop-Walt handled it badly and lost the decision gracelessly. The studio was closed down for two weeks. Except for the war, it would...
...station steps and through the narrow doors of a monorail car that was already crowded with passengers. The car took off, soaring across the city and along the banks of the winding Wupper river. Tuffi screamed and began running wildly up & down inside. Then, with the courage of a Dumbo but without air-force ears, she plunged through the car door into open space. A few minutes later circus attendants rounded Tuffi up as she sprawled shocked but uninjured in the bed of the Wupper 18 feet below. Overhead dangled the wreckage of the flying tram, still filled with Tuffi...
...general rule, elephants and streetcars are better off when they do not try to fly, but all rules have their exceptions. A few years back Walt Disney conceived an elephant named Dumbo with ears so big that he could flap them like wings and fly through the air with the greatest of ease. And Germany's sprawling city of greater Wuppertal has long been hooked in on an interurban elevated line whose cars are suspended from a single elevated rail...