Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a week of eager expectations, the President, his family and official party were set for the 4,700-mile flight to Rio. The sleek new presidential DC-6, Independence, had been stocked with rubber life rafts, machetes, canned rations, rifles, insect repellents and parachutes-just in case of trouble...
...cautious trial flight for Field, whose father has spent untold millions keeping the Chicago Sun, PM and other ventures aloft. For only $70,000 (his own), Field IV got all the preferred stock in American Family. The common stock will be split four ways among: 1) Grimes's massive (4,900 stores) Independent Grocers' Alliance, 2) Mullen, 3) Field IV, 4) Carl J. Weitzel, vice president and treasurer of Field Enterprises, Inc. An advisory board of 47 educators and clergymen will try to help the magazine aim a little higher than its biggest rivals...
They were the only survivors. In the floating wreckage, dotted with empty Mae Wests, abandoned flight jackets and gaudy, souvenir kimonos, five bodies were recovered, a sixth sank just as the Hermes came alongside. George Atcheson was among the four passengers and crewmen still missing...
...from this cozy society, with its unquestioning faith in business and its unconscious exclusion of other classes, other arts and ways of life, Canby admits that the young men of his time took flight in coveys to the relative freedom of college life. In college, however, they found a juvenile competitive society exactly suited to put them back where they came from. Says he: "I can still shiver with humiliation over slights remembered for thirty-odd years, and warm at the memory of unforgettable mirth," or of his more rakish classmates with "their tiny straw hats with negligible brims...
...time Pilot J. Nelson Pell was over Boston, on a charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...