Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo...
It crashed on a farm below and burst into flames, killing twelve passengers and a crew of three-the first casualties on a scheduled U.S. airline since August 1948. The damaged fighter plane crashed seconds later. A farmhand saw its pilot-26-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Poe of Fairfax...
John Foster Dulles, freshman Senator from New York, who was denied a seat on the potent Foreign Relations Committee because of seniority, brought his formidable knowledge of world affairs to bear in a consolation post-the District of Columbia Committee, which runs the city of Washington. "I am generally," said...
That night, Nehru went to Calcutta's vast central park, the Maidan, to address a crowd of 600,000 (a rival meeting called by leftists boycotting Nehru drew only 1,000). As he ascended the speakers' platform, a loud explosion sounded on the outskirts of the crowd. A...
Manhattan's swelling Puerto Rican community has provided a lush bonanza tor nonscheduled U.S. airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes...