Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowpokes were the other two Voodoo pilots: Captain Ray Schrecengost, 31, flew the round trip at an average speed of 671.4 m.p.h.; Captain Robert Kilpatrick, 32, flew the first leg (landing at McGuire) averaging 765.68 m.p.h. Rewards for all four: the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sweet and Klatt, Air Medals to Schrecengost and Kilpatrick...
Smiling, attentive, the King swiftly flipped through the Washington tourist spots dressed in djellabah. He accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree from George Washington University, visited Washington's new mosque, Bashir Ahmad, flew down to colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At the restored Governor's Palace, a guide told the King that "as elegant as the place is, there were limited washroom facilities [in colonial times]." Confessed the King wryly: "We have the same trouble...
...more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close look at the King Ranch's own Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle and the clanking oil-digging rigs. At week's end he flew on to California and a trip to Disneyland...
Capital Airlines, laden with its full share of financial troubles, flew headlong into a downdraft. In Washington last week, experts for the Civil Aeronautics Board withdrew a recommendation that Capital get a long-range route from the Great Lakes to Florida's rich vacation market, instead advised the CAB that Capital was not equipped to fly the run. CAB's reason: the original recommendation was based on the proposition that Capital would have new planes to fly the route. Since then, Capital's financial position has deteriorated so badly that it had to postpone plane deliveries indefinitely...
...Strain. Hoping to steal a march on the rest of the U.S. airline industry, Capital flew bravely into the jet-age dawn by buying 60 British Viscount turboprops three years ago, agreed to pay $67.5 million within five years of delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit...