Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cons. Bill Patterson had scarcely stopped talking when the let's-compete school spoke up again. Speaking before the Pittsburgh Rotary Club, C. Bedell Monro, Pennsylvania Central Airlines' seadrome-enthusiast president (TIME, May 24), lashed out against the "anesthesia of complacent monopoly." He insisted that the reason the U.S. is a top-rank air power is that it had so many domestic lines competing in peacetime. He saw no reason why the same argument should not apply to world flying after the war. And he had no misgivings about the size of the postwar air market...
...cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy was watched by 4,000, including wives of the victims...
Abby Rockefeller Milton, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr., arrived in Reno to get a divorce, after 18 years, from David Meriwether Milton. A blithe young speed enthusiast known as "The Golden Girl" to society editors of the mid '20s, she had stayed out of the news since her marriage. Milton is a lawyer whose accomplishments include borrowing $1,000,000 from his father-in-law. The divorce will be the first involving one of John D. Sr.'s direct descendants...
About five years ago a Pittsburgh jazz enthusiast named William Russell heard from Louis Armstrong that Bunk Johnson was still alive somewhere in the Deep South. Once Bunk was found at his old home in New Iberia, La., he became a voluble correspondent. He slowly pecked out his careful letters on an old typewriter. Says he: "You can sit down with a cup of coffee and a cigaret and be sure you won't go to sleep because that little bell keeps waking you up." Bunk kept insisting in his letters that if he had a trumpet...
They were not sad because General MacArthur, not always an enthusiast for air operations, had recognized and proved air power as an adjunct of vast potency to the ground and naval forces. The Germans had proved that in Poland, in the Lowlands and many times since. So, with great virtuosity, had the U.S. Navy...