Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure-blooded Semites, Finns, Mongolians and Negroes from Africa...
Arthur Murray dance teachers named the best non-professional dancers of the land, without saying whether they were customers. Among the favored: Joe DiMaggio, Doris Duke, Bing Crosby, Esther Williams and (for "dignity, poise and bearing") New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer and General Mark W. Clark...
...turn-for any reason-against the people to whom they have dedicated their lives. In 1900, hundreds of Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries were killed by the fanatically nationalist Boxers of China; as a result the influence of Christianity became more pervasive than it had ever been in the land of Confucius. Throughout the Orient in the past ten years, death has come to many missionaries as it came last week to Missionary Underwood...
Five years after the Martin 130, Trippe got his famed Boeing 314 flying boats, and the British were still not ready to fly the Atlantic. But when he got rights to land at Lisbon and Marseille, they wearily told him he might as well come along to Southampton...
...American's 152 land planes (the flying boats have been retired) fly 61,038 route miles. The line's safety record is one of the best, thanks in great part to Vice President André Priester, 57, a brilliant engineer who for 22 years has been in charge of Pan Am's planes, maintenance, traffic guides, etc., and is fondly called "our Steinmetz...