Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing. ¶ Extend the life of the late-starting, hard-working Civil Rights Commission, created by the Administration's 1957 bill, for another two years...
...venture will be non-profit--the pilots will even pay one fourth of the cost involved in renting and servicing a plane for the flight. Passengers will be expected to split the remaining three-fourths of the expenses...
...they will go to Washington in groups of about 30 for full briefings on Project Mercury. After that, the candidates will be asked if they want to volunteer. From the volunteers, 36 will be chosen to be tested on their ability to cope with the strange stresses of space flight...
...avalanches ripped out lift towers three times. The lodge was cut off four times by bridge washouts, flooded out twice, later (in 1956) burned to the ground. Poulsen and Cushing had increasingly sharp differences. The showdown came in October 1949, when, in Poulsen's absence on an international flight for Pan Am, his wife Sandy fired off letters to Squaw stockholders accusing Cushing of mismanagement. A stockholders' meeting was called, and the result was inevitable, since Cushing owned 52% of the stock, his friends another 46%. After an audit showed nothing legally wrong, Cushing replaced Poulsen as president...
FASTEST CIVILIAN JETLINER, the Convair 880, with a rated speed of 615 m.p.h., made its maiden flight over California, will go into airline service in the spring...