Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, leaky, 1,814-ton Chesapeake Bay excursion boat, once known as the President Warfield but now grimly called Exodus 1947, last week unsteadily approached the Palestine coast. The Zionist flag flew at her mast, and 4,554 refugees-the largest number that ever tried to run the British blockade at one time-jammed her holds. The refugees knew that the British Navy's destroyers patrolled the coast; but perhaps they hoped that the presence of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) would embarrass the British sufficiently to let the Exodus slip...
Hedda always asks Louella to her parties. Louella never comes. While the two get along fairly well, "our love," according to Hedda, "is not exactly demonstrative." Relations have been a little shaky lately because of the May Day baby incident. When Bette Davis had her May Day baby, she flew the coop and refused to talk to the press. Hedda, suspecting that Bette had gone to Laguna, climbed into her grey Cadillac and simply drove down. Finding the door ajar, she walked in. Bette was delighted to see her and they talked for two hours. Said Lolly in her column...
...Easy Way. Today he has six flying schools, more than 300 private planes and some 35 freight-flying lines at his field. No matter how harebrained their plans, Wehran is willing to let the freight flyers set up shop at his field. Some ex-Navy pilots flew in a folding-wing torpedo bomber a fortnight ago. In delivering freight, they plan to fold the wings, run the plane through the streets to their destination...
...when Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov took off from Paris on his way back to Moscow. In the dawn, he flew across a continent which, for the first time since the dreadful but simple days of war, could see clearly where it stood...
Make It on Horses. But not Ferd Owen. He went right on rounding up more mules. While the Department of Agriculture hemmed & hawed, he flew down to Mexico City to see Mexican officials himself. When he went home, Owen carried a contract to sell the Mexican Government 20,000 mules at the handsome price of $115 a head. That just about eliminated everyone else...