Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...
Died. Weston B. ("Bert") Hall,* 62, colorful, Missouri-born flying soldier of fortune and a founder of the famed Lafayette Escadrille in World War I; of a heart attack; in Fremont, Ohio. In his 20 years as a mercenary, Hall flew for six nations but never for the U.S., in 1933 was jailed for 2½ years when as an adviser to the Chinese Nationalist air force (he called himself General Chan), he was convicted of taking off with...
...went to Cambridge on a research fellowship and remained there until President Jordan flew across last spring and asked me to come to Harvard . . . Well, I guess that is about...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...