Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been made any easier by the fact that Australians still have definite ideas of what kind of immigrants they want: ten Britons to one from other lands, very few "reffos" (Aussie for European refugees), few southern Europeans, and, in the long-established Australian tradition, no Asiatics. Last week Calwell flew to London to pound tables and find out why only 6,000 of 186,000 Britons who have applied for immigration to Australia can get berths on Australia-bound ships this year...
Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, who used to be billed by Hollywood as "America's Boy Friend" before he married Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford, flew into New York for a tenth wedding anniversary celebration, pitched into an old-timey movie clinch for photographers (see cut). The boy friend was now a greying 42, the sweetheart...
Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone...
...Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
Rumors of war flew about Germany and Italy last week. Russian tanks, they said, were massed on the Oder; 2,000,000 U.S. and British troops were in Italy (actual total: 55,000). U.S., British and Russian authorities did their best to squelch this nonsense. In Berlin, a Russian officer, a certain Major Savaliev, went on the air with the most interesting reason that there would be no war. Said...