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When the four friends surveyed their finished craft, they saw a crate whose fuselage had only three seats, whose engine was Polish, whose tail wheel came from a Nazi Messerschmitt, whose carburetors and exhaust stacks were American. A split rudder panel had been patched with strips of an old leather jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Men & a Girl | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...Republican machine in Philadelphia, which has been emitting a murky odor from its City Hall exhaust, had a new man at the wheel last week. With the machine's help, the Rev. Daniel Alfred Poling, 66, internationally known Baptist clergyman, newspaper columnist, editor and Christian Endeavor leader, won the Republican nomination for mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ring Job Ordered | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Distinctly not the kind of man a voter would expect to find tied up with an administration noted for graft, extortion and embezzlement, Dan Poling promptly let it be-known that he planned to install some new piston rings to clean up that exhaust. He would call a meeting of civic leaders to reorganize Philadelphia Republicanism, he said, and start "a veritable crusade for honest, efficient government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ring Job Ordered | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...Europe-bound traveler, however, the United States will look as luxurious as any ship in the world. Among her features: 2 2 public rooms, two theaters, and kitchens equipped with electronic radar stoves. Her two giant smokestacks, largest ever built, have fishtail fins to waft the ship's exhaust away from the sports and sun decks below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Back in the Major League | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With the roar of two colliding freight trains, the starboard catapult hurled its plane forward. It thundered off the bow and roared upward into the night, trailed by a blue glow from its exhaust stacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AT SEA: Carrier Action | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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