Word: herculeses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
For more than a year, Chicago's Pure Oil Co. has been much like the princess of a Norwegian fairy tale: sitting on top of a hill of glass, she watched as a host of suitors tried to negotiate the slippery slope to win her hand. Pure would welcome...
In place of its projected HS-681 transport, Britain will buy some 50 C-130 Hercules turboprop transports from
"Full Responsibility." In the Congo, where leftist-led rebels butchered at least 80 American and European men, women and children held hostage behind their lines, the U.S. provided a dozen C-130 Hercules transports to carry Belgian paratroopers to the rescue (see cover story in THE WORLD). President Johnson, who...
The character Mr. Humphrey should have referred to is Antaeus, a giant who was held in the air by Hercules and thus slain when he was unable to touch the ground and regain his strength.
The pilotless plane the Chinese shot down almost certainly was a Ryan Fire-bee flown out of South Viet Nam. The Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego has sold some 2,000 such aircraft to the Defense Department. With a 12-ft. 10-in. wingspan, the Firebee can fly at...