Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locusts came from the west, from the wild Chaco region of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They swarmed into southern Brazil on a 60-mile front, blotting out the sun as they flew, making more noise than a squadron of diving planes. It took them four hours (at 9 m.p.h.) to fly over one village in Paranaá state. They blocked roads, stalled trains, invaded houses. They devastated eight towns, ate up an estimated 60,000 tons of wheat -more than half of Brazil's small but vital wheat crop...
Margery Sharp, British author of the cinematized Cluny Brown, flew to the U.S. for a month's vacation, speculated on the casting of her soon-to-be-cinematized Britannia Mews. Who should play the disreputable Mrs. Mounsey, "the Sow" ("Her person was obscene . . . she sagged with fat . . .")? Novelist Sharp had an idea: "Charles Laughton . . . would be simply marvelous, but I don't suppose that would be quite proper, would...
...Anna and the King of Siam flew in the face of established Hollywood precedent...
Last winter Joseph O'Mara flew to the U.S. with five trial recordings of Christy Lynch's voice. He played them for Howard Barlow, an NBC conductor, and Barlow, in turn, played the records over long-distance telephone for Firestone officials in Akron, Ohio. Practically instantaneous result: a one-year contract with Firestone for Lynch to broadcast on alternate Mondays...
...often odorous history. Germinated by the wild enthusiasm for anything with wings that followed Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, AVCO sprouted from gilt-edged seed (Lehman Brothers; Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction." Not till 1937 did AVCO turn into an honest woman...