Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have] witnessed the sufferings of men in a world trapped by fear, famine and madness called Communism ... I avow that unless the whole American people, without further ostrichlike actions and pretenses, unite to stop the Communist floodings of our own land, our sons, for the third and last time, shall be summoned ... to bear arms against those who would desecrate and destroy them. Yea, it is full time that a strong and vigilant America unite in prayer and protest...
...When the cardinal confessed to treason against the government in Hungary, he but professed his loyalty to his country. If this be treason, to deny allegiance to an atheistic Communist government-then thank God Cardinal Mindszenty confessed to treason, as would I, if this free land of America were ever conquered...
From Peiping the Reds sent a clearance for the plane to land, as well as reservations for all at the Wagons-Lits Hotel. Said Dr. Yen: "We have no authority to negotiate [but] we will tell the Communists how much the people down here want peace...
Stewart's tubelike conveyor would run on trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons...
This smoke-shrouded monster is Lockheed's 92-ton Constitution, the largest commercial-type land plane in use. Built for the U.S. Navy, the Constitution took off last week from Moffet Field, Calif., on its maiden passenger trip to Washington. Six auxiliary jets helped the plane cut its take-off run. The double-decked Constitution broke no speed records (it made the trip in 9 hrs. 35 min.), but it carried 90 people, the largest number ever flown in a nonstop transcontinental flight. Though Lockheed has no commercial orders for the plane, President Robert Gross thinks it would...