Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Bridges flew to Hawaii last week for an admiring look at the 14-week-old blockade that his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening...
...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
From Quito, President Galo Plaza Lasso flew to Ambato. He set up headquarters in the central square and for two days, without sleep or a change of clothing, directed rescue and relief work. Around him the homeless squatted among their salvaged blankets and cooking pots, and in nearly every group candles flickered before the picture of a saint...
With its four jet engines screaming like tortured banshees, Britain's De Havilland Cornet, the world's only jet airliner, took off on its first test flight last week and flew for 31 minutes over Hertfordshire. Test Pilot Captain John Cunningham made a cream-smooth landing and reported the flight "entirely successful...
Despite this mushrooming, Joyce's founder and president, handsome William Henry Joyce Jr., 49, is taking no chances. For the past month, he has been skittering around Europe building his business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...