Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's warning came just before the London talks recessed until next week and Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen flew home to report fresh progress toward "partial disarmament" providing for a cutback in arms, manpower and defense costs. Three days before Stassen's arrival, Secretary of State Dulles had also moved in to mod erate any undue optimism about the talks that Happy Harold Stassen might generate. The Soviet proposals, Dulles granted at his news conference, marked "a certain measure of progress." But the Administration would make no disarmament moves-which could involve the "very existence...
...nights before the funeral, John McClellan received word that his favorite son John Jr., who was preparing to follow his father in the law, had been injured in an automobile accident near Fayetteville. But Johnny was reported not badly hurt, so the family attended Max's funeral, then flew to Fayetteville. Recalls Jimmy, the only remaining son: "When we arrived at the airport, there was a little delegation waiting to see us. Dad looked out of the window at their faces and he knew...
...WTOP. But WMAL's General Manager Fred Houwink polled other ABC affiliates and found plenty of interest. Most interested of all: Seattle's lively KING, whose manager, Otto Brandt, went quickly into action. Brandt lined up six other ABC affiliates willing to share the costs, also flew one of his announcers to Washington to help with the coverage...
...more than a year, U.S. airline operators have been flying in a pilot's nightmare: the higher they flew, the closer they came to a crash. Though domestic-airline revenues rose to new records, the drag of faster-rising costs reduced profits to the point where net operating income dropped to $101 million in 1956, v. $123 million in 1955. Last March seven major airlines petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 6% "emergency" fare inr crease pending the outcome of a full-scale general fare investigation of their entire rate structure. Last week, in their first-quarter reports...
...while struggling tirelessly to construct a great industrial combine, John Hopkins was also undergoing another struggle-with cancer. He underwent an operation in 1954 for cancer, later vigorously resumed his duties in the hope that he had won out. The cancer persisted. Last week, recognizing the inevitable, Hopkins flew East from his home in California to preside over a directors' meeting. Its purpose was to name Executive Vice President Frank Pace Jr., 44, onetime Secretary of the Army, to be General Dynamics' new president. Hopkins never made the meeting. Instead, he entered Georgetown University Hospital. There last week...