Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airlines publicity men ballyhooed the event, without making the obvious point that such transportation, while necessary, is uneconomical by modern (but strictly military) aircraft standards. But airmen agreed that American had something, anyhow. At war's end, the airlines will get plenty of planes (like the new Curtiss Commando and the four-motored Douglas C-54) which are now doing a reasonably economical job of lugging cargo for the armed services. Meanwhile American's men will get freighting experience...
Hodes will have the same group as the last session with Mezz Mozzrow, Kaiser Marshall, and the rest of his veteran Jazzmen on hand. Any College players who wish may also try their luck in the Dining Hall, scene of the event...
That future was important to the future of all Americans. On the 324th anniversary of perhaps the most tragic event in American history, only the good will and good sense of both whites and Negroes, working together, could check the danger that threatened them. All Americans might well remember some of the wisest words ever written on the problem before them...
...Miss Crawford it is not much of an event to mark her departure from M.G.M., where she has been a big name ever since the gin-drenched days of Our Dancing Daughters (1928). Her new boss: Warner's. Reported inducement: "an executive...
...Cardinal Pacelli came face to face with the event which was to climax his ecclesiastical career. Pope Pius XI died. From all points of the compass Cardinals rushed to Rome to elect his successor. Cardinal Pacelli personally wired the Italian Line to ask that the Neptunia make an extra fast trip so that the Latin American Cardinals would arrive for the voting. In his haste one Cardinal was compelled to fly from Portugal over the battle lines of the Spanish Civil War. For the first time in history U.S. Cardinals also were present at the conclave to elect a Pope...