Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...
Santa glumly takes off. "Then as he flew over the Atlantic, his radio caught the chimes of Moscow, and there were choruses of children's voices, jolly, singing, laughing. 'That lucky guy, Grandfather Frost. He brings them what they want. . . Things to live...
...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...
...fact-finding commission of the Organization of American States flew back to Washington last week with a locker full of documents and depositions. Then, after six hours, the O.A.S. Council announced its findings on the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua (TIME...
When the January issue appeared last week with new layouts and writers, the face-lifting operation looked like a success. The masthead flew two MacArthurs instead of one; mustached brother John D. MacArthur, president of Chicago's Bankers Life & Casualty Co., was the new publisher. Ince had sold out and gone off to Europe. "We didn't want anything with the MacArthur name on it to fail," explained John D. loyally. "My group-just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money-has put up $500,000 to make...