Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru...
...real pressure under the low-priced shares was due, less to rumors, than to cash burning citizens' pockets. Unable to spend it for goods, they were ripe for a flyer in the market...
...business went well. He received stolen goods, dealt in prostitution from time to time, and once took a brief flyer in kidnapping. He invested in real estate, operated a chromium-trimmed bar-&-grill called the Bomb Shelter. But basically he was a gambling executive...
Cold Nazi eyes noted the gesture. Hard Nazi justice sentenced the Fräulein to a year's hard labor, suspended her "civil rights" for three years. Moralized the Kölnische Zeitung: "Ruth Wegmann's attitude toward the enemy terror flyer is simply incredible. Such acts are unworthy of German women and contrary to our national feelings...
Even better is G for Genevieve, the breath-taking narrative of a pseudonymous Polish flyer whose family is still in Nazi-occupied Poland. Its true story: a hair-raising account of the author's attempt to get a plane to fight with. When he reported for duty (after two days of plane-strafed rail travel), he found the airport smashed. When he joined a squadron (after retreating with crowds of peasants along the choked, corpse-littered roads), his fighter was shot to pieces while it was taxiing across the field. "By that time the German air force was ranging...