Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This offer may be someone's flight of fancy," Ornstein opined, "and we won't go out on a limb by accepting now. The whole thing seems dizzy to me," he added, as he stumbled down a short flight of steps...
...around the world for 20 years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent in Moscow and Berlin, he was a deputy director of OWI's overseas operations, a fellow traveler on Willkie's "one world" flight, and translator of Soviet Novelist Konstantin Simonov's Days and Nights...
...Britain, the overvalued pound made touring comparatively expensive. In London's first-flight Dorchester Hotel, for example, a single room with bath cost $11 a night. Britain's rationing system was also stricter than on the Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...
...peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...
...pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...