Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alien spouses" turned out to be a husband-a displaced Hungarian photographer named Gabor Rona who had married an ex-SPAR named Blossom Bernstein. Then there was Elisabeth Albinus, a pretty German girl whose ex-sergeant boy friend walked out on her two hours after she arrived at Idlewild Airport. Lissome Elisabeth got her picture in the tabloids, received at least one offer of adoption, 50, proposals and a free English course from the Linguaphone Institute of America...
Airports. The Port of New York Authority bought New Jersey's 500-acre, ten-hangar Teterboro Air Terminal. This closed the last escape hatch for airlines that objected to the Authority's landing fees at Idlewild and hoped to take off on transatlantic flights from Teterboro (TIME, July 12). Price: $3,115,000. Teterboro's owner, Frederick L. Wehran, got the property...
...three years ago with just two converted C-47s and $90,000 of borrowed capital. Now it has eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that he had been making scheduled flights (forbidden under his "irregular" registration...
...Idlewild Airport's opening last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the biggest crowds gathered around the Air Force's huge (six engines, 230-foot wingspread) 6-36 bomber. But what made U.S. airlines take notice were the details which Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. released on a recent trip of its "flying cigar." The monster had taken off with the heaviest load ever lifted by an airplane (a gross weight of 300,000 Ibs.) and flown nonstop for 6,000 miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then...
...Idlewild Airport Dedication (Sat. 2:30 p.m., all radio networks; ABC & NBC television). President Harry Truman, Governor Thomas E. Dewey and New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...