Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...split second later, Humphrey witnessed a terrible spectacle. An Eastern Air Lines DC-3 on a flight from Boston to Memphis had seemingly materialized from nowhere, right out of the sun. The Navy fighter smashed squarely into it, knocked off its left wing and the tail assembly. As the pilot of the little Piper frantically dodged falling pieces of metal, the big plane began tumbling helplessly toward the earth...
Finally, three weeks ago, Lawyer Campanella drew up a contract to let Siqueiros do the job. The painter took one look at its provisions, pronounced them insulting, shoved Campanella and his brother down a flight of stairs...
...another KLM Constellation,* they had sat out the ordeal of a dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their...
...than a dozen NKVD men suddenly rushed into the room and forcibly dragged me from my bed and out of the ward . . . My slow movement down the stairs on my crutches irritated them, and they gave me a push so that I fell down. This was repeated on each flight of stairs...
Last week, six airline employees' labor unions ran large ads asking CAB to put a stop to it, on the grounds that the planes were unsafe. But CAB ruefully admitted that it had no police powers within a state, unless a local flight had interstate connections...