Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Service Correspondent Effie Alley, wrote to an old friend who writes to him from Kansas about her visits to his 82-year-old mother in Abilene: ". . . Next time you call on my Mother, tell her I am well and miss her all the time. I only wish that planes flew fast enough that I could spend one day with her and be back here the following day for work. I would go A.W.O.L. that long...
With such a head start, Fisher not around and met most of India's newsmakers months before other correspondents arrived on the scene (there were forty in India by the following spring, and pretty soon our Army was all over the place). Fisher flew with the Air Service Command on one of its first surveys to plan the American airbases which now dot India, and at one time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace...
Swiftly through the week Allied air fleets hammered at the targets. On Monday the U.S. heavies were out again. On Tuesday they were joined by bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, which flew north to strike at Regensburg, and followed the next day with a raid on Steyr. in Austria. In balanced rhythm the R.A.F. followed the Americans in smashes at Augsburg and Schweinfurt...
...open TIME'S Stockholm office, Scott crossed the Atlantic on a little unescorted merchant ship and flew to Sweden in the bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still...
...lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor. When he met House he was on his way to the Eastern Front as a U.S. military observer...