Word: figure8
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...
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