Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribe Hilton primarily a resort hotel.) "Whenever you see an offer of a 'Hotel in the Pines,'" says he, "stay away from it." He bought the Palm Beach Biltmore, was glad to sell it for a net loss of $183,353, also lost money in a flyer in three Bermuda hotels...
Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
Offside. In Evanston,Ill., young Flyer Richard Crockett swooped low enough over a football game to shout "What's the score?", heard the score the following Monday from Judge James Corcoran: "$100 fine and $6 costs...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...