Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Hughes, one month out of a Los Angeles hospital where his plane crash put him, and still looking like a stretcher case (see cut), took to the air again, flew to Manhattan. His errand: pursuit of his $5 million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer's school-teaching sister, Kathleen, flew home to Ireland from New York, flew straight into trouble. Seized by Irish customs men: 500-odd pairs of undeclared nylons. Back in New York the Mayor's brother, Paul (who said the nylons were for a sister who runs a drygoods store), assured the press that he was sure Kathleen had really meant to pay duty...
Laurette, Mary Jane and Catherine Soong, daughters of China's Premier T. V. Soong and nieces of the Chiangs, flew east from San Francisco to school. Laurette, 18, was bound for Washington's Trinity College (Roman Catholic), Mary Jane and Catherine, 16 and 15, for Baltimore and Long Island prep schools, both Quaker...
...special consultant to Major General Leslie Groves, Conant was the No. 1 intermediary between scientists, industrialists and military, an indispensable link in building the Bomb. His success in this role does not make Conant altogether happy. He considers control of the Bomb the world's biggest job, flew to Moscow last December, as an adviser to Secretary Byrnes, to discuss with Molotov and the Russians plans for atomic-energy control. While he was there, he added Moscow to the alumni kerosene circuit...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...