Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations at the conference in refusing permission for Spain to participate in international control of narcotics. John G. Winant, American representative to the meetings, who voted to exclude Spain on the narcotics question and to include her in the Aviation...
...Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
Within three hours after the wreck was spotted, a Navy PBY dropped down on a lake three miles from the wreck. From the moored plane, a 13-man rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died...
Help from the Army. Most of the passengers were too badly hurt to be carried through the bush to nearby Wolf Lake, where PBY planes were waiting. And no plane could land closer. Only helicopters could do the trick, and the nearest helicopters were 1,175 miles away in the U.S. At Elizabeth City, N.C., the Army dismantled a helicopter, flew the parts to New York. Another helicopter was waiting at LaGuardia Field. Both were loaded into C-54s and flown to Gander, reassembled...
...helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...