Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shantung, the north coast cities of Weihaiwei, Lungkow and Tengchow had been evacuated by government troops. To the northwest the Reds pressed down on the steadily narrowing Paotow-Tientsin corridor, and wealthy citizens sold their belongings for wads of paper money that they hoped would pay for their flight south...
...Questions? In Wellton, Ariz., Flight Instructor Larry C. Spain, demonstrating "How Not to Fly an Airplane," cracked...
...results were varied and poetic as they were abstract: he painted the sea to look like a flight of cold, curling steps, and made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...
...into developing its short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...
...Lait's own bonus-winning lead on a story about Murderer Harry Thaw's escape from a New York insane asylum, and his cross-country flight in the summer sun: "Harry Thaw arrived in Chicago last night, brown...