Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...University lost the first round yesterday in its attempt to have part of its Observatory Hill land rezoned to permit apartment house construction. The Cambridge Planning Board recommended to the City Council that the University's petition for a zoning change he denied...
...planning board further suggested that the Observatory grounds be turned into a neighborhood park since the College has "no immediate need" of the land for expansion of its academic plant...
M.L.T. professor Frederick J. Adams, chairman of the Planning Board, said that the University failed into explain at the public hearing on October 13 exactly how it planned to develop the land if the petition were granted...
Czernyha wants to go to Graduate School next year and would like to land a job with the State Department. With information from his homeland, he is writing a book about Russian concentration camps...