Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money in Brazil last week. The stock exchange in Sao Paulo registered zero transactions on Monday. Shopping centers were deserted, restaurants empty. Cash-strapped companies laid off thousands of employees. Most flights on Varig, Brazil's international air carrier, and Vasp, the domestic line, were either canceled or flew empty...
Currey, Greyhound's chair and chief executive officer, and Frank Schmeider, its president, flew to Jacksonville early yesterday from Dallas after learning of the Florida shooting...
...Comeback Kid do it again? To show off his vigor and dispel negative reports about the company, a determined Iacocca flew to Washington last week to kick off a six-city tour. Standing before a display of Chrysler products, Iacocca harangued the crowd: "Every time I pick up the paper, I seem to read another story that reinforces the idea that things made overseas are somehow better than anything made in America," he said. "We're not going to let that kind of crap go unchallenged anymore...
There is one of Roscoe Turner's sleek racers in the shop. Turner was a hero to Depression-ridden boys. He flew in pink jodhpurs, gleaming calvary boots, brass-button tunic, and sported a needle-pointed waxed mustache. He carried a bottle of Carbona cleaner with him to hold grease spots on his rakish costume to a minimum. You got to see him at Sioux City, Iowa, on a scorched tarmac in the drought years, and the thrill lasted the whole dismal summer. Turner brought along his pet lion cub Gilmore, which draped its paws over the side...
...Pearl Harbor, Johnson did ask for a leave of absence from the House, but he did not dash into battle. Caro meticulously records L.B.J.'s attempts to gain desk jobs in Washington and his junkets up and down the West Coast inspecting Naval facilities. Finally, facing political humiliation, he flew to the Pacific, went along as an observer on a bombing run in New Guinea, spent a few minutes under enemy fire, and returned at once to the U.S. For this he was awarded the Silver Star...