Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was dark but rainless; signal lights showed all clear. The exhausts of two locomotives pulling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle blended in a syncopated roll as the Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer raced west across the Ohio farmlands. But up the line at Coulter, a hamlet far beyond the trembling glare of the Triangle's headlight, the stage was being set for tragedy...
...slightly by the number of seductions, the risque dialogue and the double-entendres that will eventually find their way to the cutting-room floor. Wrapped in complicated shuttles between heaven and hell, past and present, the play, according to one member of the east who ventured to take a flyer on an explanation, is one great satire; on faddism, on reincarnation, and on satire itself. The main characters are placed, as usual, at the three points of the triangle, and they, with the rest of the cast, are flashed back and forth by the sorcery of one Hector Rigoletto...
...Building is a cozy room with a fireplace, bright red & green hunting prints and a volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. Like many a Big Business headquarters, it looks like the hideout of a country squire. This is the home of The Aviation Corp., once as fabulous a flyer in the realm of high finance as the Great Roc itself...
...shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...
Paul Mantz, 43-year-old movie stunt flyer, who had entered the Bendix Trophy Race four times before but never won, had this race figured: it would be won by an old hand, not by some war-bred whippersnapper...