Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four months on the ground, the first DC-6s will take to the air again this week. Douglas Aircraft Co. said it had caught the bugs that had caused two plane fires (and the death of 52) last fall and grounded the planes. American Airlines will resume its DC-6 transcontinental flights; United, National, Braniff, Panagra and Sabena will begin to put their planes in service soon afterwards...
...very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving technology becomes a powerful, compassionate image of the plight of modern...
...this case, it's judge meets girl. Spencer Tracy, in the title role, is a judge in Grand Republic, Minnesota, who falls in love with a girl from across the tracks. Their marriage beings to fall apart after their baby is born dead. The girl (Lana Turner) gets fed up with Grand Republic and Tracy's upperclass friends, and breaks with the judge because he won't live in New York. They are at last reunited, however, when Zachary Scott, a suave bachelor to whom she flees for consolation, explains that he really doesn't want her after...
Captain Pete Fuller tossed a second round, 4 to 2, decision to George La Sasse of Lehigh when he fell into a near fall in the third period, while Dan Ray lost a 6 to 2 decision to McClure of Syracuse, the man who defeated him last year. Both Ray and Fuller took pins in the first round...
Dave Coombs at 121 and Jim Conant at 155, the only other Crimson entries, both lost in the opening rounds, Coombs by a decision and Conant by a fall...