Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker...
...Created in 1943 by Britain's People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, to honor animal bravery in the armed forces, and named for the dispensary's founder, Maria Elizabeth Dickin...
...surface, at least, this was a signal honor and there was no practical way to refuse. Saadi quit as senator, was easily elected governor, then settled down to build his personal following in remote Catamarca. Presently he learned that Catamarca was perhaps not quite remote enough. From the capital came private word that President Perón was being urged to oust him on charges of graft and mismanagement...
This gift represents half of the total amount donated in' Sheldon's honor. The other half has been given to establish a Fellowship in International Law at Princeton, where Sheldon attended college...
...containing letters from the 104 residents of the Hall, a copy of the Racine News, and an enlarged airplane view of the present dormitory quadrangle was turned over to the guest of honor by Janet Stewart '50, President of the Hall...