Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force in Europe, and Lieut. Colonel Charles Mathison, member of the Discoverer II launching team. The two discussed the hunt with local authorities in Spitzbergen's tiny capital of Longyearbyen, questioned the three men who had seen the chute, took a quick whirlybird look for themselves, and flew on home...
...pursuit of Tito, National Guardsmen found some of his luggage containing a memorandum from Actor John Wayne mentioning $682.850 he had sent to Tito. Wayne said that he is a partner in Arias' shrimp business. Dame Margot flew to New York, then quickly hurried on home to England and mother. Tito ducked into the safety of Panama City's Brazilian embassy, his bullet ballet a flop. The very day he sought cover, a 55-ft. boat shoved its nose into a sandy beach on the Caribbean side of the isthmus and unloaded 50 men-apparently members...
...Allen instantly cabled his approval, wired Ludwig to pack up all his apparatus and rush it to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena. Then he flew back from New Zealand. In Pasadena, he and Pickering decided that the payload-basically a Geiger counter to detect cosmic rays in space and two incredibly light but powerful radio transmitters-would have to be modified in one respect. It contained a miniature tape recorder to record the cosmic-ray data during a trip around the earth and then transmit it quickly when triggered by a coded signal sent up from the ground. Designed...
PARIS, April 28--Christian A. Herter flew into Paris today to help tie up a Western package plan for solving the Berlin crisis and the problem of unification...
...Pays. In 1945, with only $60,000, Chalk founded the nonsked Trans Caribbean Airways by buying two DC-3s, and within two years it was earning $60,000 annually. Trans Carib expanded to lift thousands of refugees from Europe to Israel, tons of airmail from Europe to South America, flew charter trips from Johannesburg to Jerusalem. It grew so strong that in 1957 it won a regular U.S.-Puerto Rico route, became the first nonsked passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status (TIME, Dec. 2, 1957). Last year Trans Carib (including its major subsidiary, D.C. Transit) earned more...