Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty...
...Oklahoma City, James Bodard, n, and Robert Peterson, 12, stole an airplane (Ercoupe), flew it 120 miles to Cheyenne, Okla., landed it perfectly. Reported a flabbergasted state trooper: "They said it was easy. They'd looked at comic books that told all about it. They thought we were silly not to know...
...Post Office Department celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first airmail flight-a deed of derring-do by an Army pilot who, on May 15, 1918, flew 144 lbs. of mail 218 miles from New York to Washington in a World War I "Jenny." On the anniversary date, two jet planes flew eight ounces over the same route. Time: 27½ minutes...
...Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild...
...Talk. Whether the prodigy will live up to its pressagentry, or whether its blessing will be unmixed, no one yet knows for sure. But one thing is certain: television is coming. It is already where aviation was when Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927-imperfect but inevitable. The chances are that it will change the American way of life more than anything since the Model...