Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...checkered flag dropped. Thirty-three low-slung, supercharged autos growled and pushed for position. On the straightaway, 50-year-old Ralph Hepburn got the pace up to a deafening 168 m.p.h. On the 16th lap, a Fageol Special bucked on the northwest turn, sailed over the wall. During the first hour, 14 cars had to stop at the pits for repairs...
...them for Rumania's King Michael and his aunt, Princess Elisabeth. Guards with Tommy guns stood at the doors, to protect Government officials in the audience. During the concert, janitors swept the floors, poking with their brooms beneath the feet of annoyed listeners. A huge U.S. flag hung behind Menuhin on stage, the first time it has been centrally displayed in Rumania since...
...peddled pins & needles and was a trolley car conductor in Philadelphia. The words "S. Hurok presents . . ." first appeared outside the huge (6,000 capacity) New York Hippodrome in 1916. Hurok advertised that the King and Queen of the Belgians would attend a symphony concert with pianist Josef Lhevinne. The flag-draped royal box was empty-but Hurok took...
...Hindu dancer ShanKar would not board a train unless he was well supplied with movie fan magazines. Hurok learned to handle all such oddities of temperament-all but Isadora Duncan's. Once in Boston's Symphony Hall, Isadora's husband, an enthusiastic Communist, waved a red flag from a dressing room window, made a speech to the crowd below. While she danced, Isadora's dislike of her Brahmin audience got the best of her. She stopped, pointed indignantly at the Greek statues against the wall, shouted to the audience: "They are false...
...months CAB had been studying the application of eleven U.S. lines for Latin American routes. Finally it decided that four domestic lines should be given Caribbean routes to compete with Pan Am. But the board did not think Pan Am needed any U.S. flag competition on its lucrative Bermuda and South American runs. When CAB's recommendations went to the President he decided that, on the contrary, more competition was needed-and plenty of it. In jigtime he overruled CAB on four important routes. Moreover, he peremptorily told CAB just exactly which U.S. airlines should...