Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lochinvar Foiled. Near Bogota, Colombia, down came a young man's airplane, out ran the rancher's daughter. Up from a clump of bushes rose Rancher Jose Pastarana, lassoed his eloping daughter. Away flew the young...
...April 1945 he flew from California to Washington. Franklin Roosevelt had died. George walked into the presence of a stricken Harry Truman, bowed and said solemnly: "Mr. President." Since that moment, the lawyer of Okolona has sat at Harry Truman's right hand...
Suggestions flew like criss-crossing rockets. Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce said sadly: "It's unfortunate UNO couldn't have picked a place where it would be more welcome." The New York Times dug up the fact, and printed it as a broad hint, that "Mr. Roosevelt felt that the Azores would be an ideal place for a world capital...
...Frederick Morgan came to headquarters last week to put his affair in order. He flew 3,500miles from Frankfurt to New York to help UNRRA settle the tempest that blew up when he was badly misreported at a press conference (TIME, Jan. 14). The squarejawed, square-dealing British general, who had refused to resign as chief of UNRRA's Germany operations, conferred earnestly for four days with UNRRA's Director General Herbert Lehman...
While United Air Lines chalked up a rare crash (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS),Transcontinental & Western Air hung up a record. A TWA Constellation, with TWA President Jack Frye at the controls and 45 passengers aboard, flew from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours 27 minutes nonstop last week: 6½ hours faster than most regularly scheduled airliners. Average speed: 329 m.p.h. Within the month, TWA will begin flying Constellations regularly on the route. Proposed time: 10 hours...