Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineers bore up well under the strain of quipsters' "Your programs aren't so hot any more," but soon found that the signal still flew out to Watertown. After a brief experiment with House drain pipes, they hit on the present scheme of piping programs through the University's electric lighting system. At present, extension cords reach only into the seven Houses, but only funds and wire are lacking for Yard coverage. Technical Director T. Michael Sanders '48 expects to have the project completed some time next fall...
Babe Ruth, who spent most of the winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
Removing so expensive an item as Reynolds Packard from the U.P. payroll called for more than a routine cable. U.P. president Hugh Baillie personally ordered Reynolds fired. Walter Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials as the Russian "evacuation" of Dairen last fall, the "human-headed spider" he discovered near Peiping, and the discovery of a Russian atomic bomb plant on Lake Baikal...
...Patterson put his pilots to work testing the DC-6. In four months they flew it 1,520 hours. They flew it at 25,000 feet to test the pressurized cabin; they flew it into a sleet storm so bad that a following DC-4 had to turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York...
...Early for Wolves. Rumors of a collapse in the slumping women's apparel industry (one report had 75% of the women's coat-&-suit makers in New York idle) flew so thick & fast that many manufacturers were hard put to deny them all. Up-&-coming Henry Rosenfeld, Inc. (TIME, June 10) was so harassed by reports of its imminent failure that it finally took full-page ads in Manhattan's Sunday papers to dispel them with its balance sheet. Main point: cash in bank, $1,119,006.70; "owed to banks...