Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late in July, President Truman flew to Missouri...
Last week brought "Double Ten" (the tenth day of the tenth month) again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
Along the borders of Palestine the Arab threat did not materialize immediately. Associated Pressman Joseph Goodwin flew out on a 300-mile scouting trip, reported: "Unless they were hiding in caves or camouflaged as camels, there were not 1,000 troops within 20 miles on either side of the border, from the Mediterranean to the Dead...
...Columbia undergraduates hired a blimp, flew over the Yale campus and dropped 5,000 leaflets bearing a cocky ultimatum: "Your unfeeling leaders have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes...
...Sept. 29,.. a U.S. Navy-chartered DC-4 flew in from the U.S. with enough anti-cholera vaccine for 200,000 people. Within two days, four more planes arrived, hightailing straight across the Atlantic. The U.N.'s World Health Organization rushed vaccine to nervous countries near Egypt. Planes came from Britain, France, Switzerland, Iraq. China (where cholera is endemic but out of season) sent a million units of vaccine. A Russian plane was expected this week with another million...