Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only 10 to 15 liveborn calves per 100 cows, v. 75 in normal years. A pilot who flew over the ranch area said he saw dead and dying cattle "in every direction. It is a field day for the buzzards...
...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...
...week's end President Sukarno at last flew in from Tokyo, cheerily told the crowd at the airport that, with God's help, all difficulties would be solved. He might be right, but it was up to him. Even as the rebels appealed for recognition by the world's governments, they insisted that they would be happy to disband the minute Sukarno accepted their demands...
...exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was hired to sing the title role in his new production of Carmen...
...sites around the U.S. It has found that one man in a light plane can do the work of eight in cars or aboard boats, and the time saved often means keeping a valuable well from being wrecked. Magcobar's fleet: 17 planes, mostly float-equipped, which flew 7,200 hours last year at a cost of $144,000, far less than the business they brought...