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...order for 14 Comets, is already lengthening the landing strips on fields along the London-Rome -Cairo -India -Singapore -Australia route to handle the jet plane. At present, Sir Miles held that high fuel consumption and airport congestion make jet transports impractical on routes to such airports as La Guardia. Said he: "No matter what the U.S. does, we're 18 months ahead of the rest of the world." (U.S. aircraft builders at the conference agreed; the U.S. does not have a single commercial jet transport plane abuilding...
Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing a prosecutor who was investigating crookedness on the police force (TIME, July...
...there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
Stolidly, fire fighters and policemen remained above the ground in the city during the raids. Mayor Wu was usually in their midst, dashing from fire to fire, from crisis to crisis. He became a sort of glorified La Guardia; to Chungking's Chinese -and to many an American-he became a hero...
...York's La Guardia Field, there was a smear of haze across the half moon; the summer night air was warm and humid. Most of the 55 passengers who crowded into the belly of the big, silent, high-tailed DC-4 were vacation-bound. At Northwest Airlines' special night-aircoach rates they could fly to Minneapolis for $47, or to Seattle, the end of the line, for $111-and only over night. Youngsters, husbands and wives, stenographers and a Roman Catholic priest (who had boarded the plane at the last minute) fastened their seat belts as the four...