Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petrillo flew from Chicago to New York to pull out all the stops. Muzak Corp. agreed not to pipe in canned music to silent hotels, A.F.L. electricians pledged themselves not to install jukeboxes. As Petrillo, dressed in two-tone shoes and a cream-colored silk shirt, made the rounds of unmusical bars, another friendly columnist, the New York Post's Earl Wilson, stalked him behind a glass of beer at Toots Shor's non-union spot...
...what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor sat tight. At dusk eleven vets, their wives and 18 children rumbled out to Kildare Barracks in trucks. They unloaded beds, stoves, washing machines...
...Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...
Many of the younger pilots needed accurate navigation to get anywhere above the overcast, but Mantz flew along at 30,000 feet, using instruments, but to hear him tell it, following his nose. The first time he saw ground was at Pueblo, Colo. "I spotted it through a break in the clouds just off to the right where I wanted to be." He sat back, gazing at the steamy floor of cloud just below him. "I was sloppy . . . sometimes I'd let the plane climb as much as 1,000 feet without doing anything about it," said...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...