Word: klm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 21,500 miles of flying, and four weeks of interviews, the 13 correspondents in the U.S. press party were too tired even to play poker. Homeward-bound on the KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) Constellation Franeker, they were in no mood for the kind of horseplay that had brightened an earlier leg of their Indonesian tour, when Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News whipped out some scissors and trimmed the luxuriant locks of the Houston Post's James Branyan, while two other newsmen held him down...
...another KLM Constellation,* they had sat out the ordeal of a dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their...
Three hours later, rocking through the driving rain and ghostlike clouds of a monsoon storm, Captain Chris van der Vaart, one of KLM's most experienced pilots, nosed down. When the plane broke through the murk, they could glimpse the sea and the approaches of Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. As the pilot headed northeast to circle for a landing, the plane was again swallowed by the low-hanging mists. Suddenly its left wing brushed a hidden, tree-covered, 674-foot hill, ripped along its slope as the pilot frantically tried to gain altitude. Some 20 feet from...
...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...
This brought stunned representatives of almost every foreign government in Washington streaming in to look at the big "orange-peel" map of U.S. plans. The British stared when they saw blue lines running through British territories. The Dutch came to worry about their KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) interests. The enigmatic Russians came and went, enigmatically...