Word: idlewild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor of a cavernous hangar at New York's Idlewild Airport, the ghost of a dead jetliner is slowly taking shape...
...Radar. On the morning of the Idlewild crash, former Pilot George A. Van Epps, the bureau's northeastern chief, with headquarters at Idlewild, got a phone call from the tower: "This is an alert...
...weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
...nation's wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash...
...Among the works-in-progress: Washington's Dulles Airport, two college buildings at Yale, the Jefferson Memorial Arch in St. Louis, the Trans World Airlines terminal at Idlewild and Lincoln Center theater in Manhattan...