Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eights in the world, and miler Lou Zamperini climbed up a flagpole after a swastika and shinnied right into an international incident. Perhaps it's a sign that peace is really here; for in 1948 the world plans to hold another edition of the Olympic games this time in London, England...
About ten hours before the landing at Brize Norton last week, the C-54 was taxied out on a runway at Stephenville, Newfoundland, and pointed in the general direction of London. Colonel J. M. Gillespie, her commander, pushed a button. From then on, the plane behaved as if an invisible crew were working her controls. The four engines roared for the takeoff, the brakes let go, the plane sped down the runway and climbed up over the Atlantic while the wheels retracted automatically. At 9,000 ft., it leveled off and headed for London at normal cruising speed...
Last week all London was still fighting for tickets to the U.S. musical Oklahoma! But for a simple-minded evening in the theater, the British public preferred an outrageously sentimental, swashbuckling melodrama-with-music called Perchance to Dream. It celebrated its thousandth performance by packing the Hippodrome to the rafters with sniffling, wildly applauding spectators...
...Including the Mellon interests of Pittsburgh; Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America); Bache & Co.'s Frank T. Ryan; Glore, Forgan & Co.; London's Hambros Bank, Ltd. and Robert Benson & Co., Ltd. Besides Stettinius and Grew, the individuals include the wartime OSS head, Major General William J. Donovan; Willys-Overland's Chairman James D. Mooney; Atlas Corp.'s L. Boyd Hatch, and Sir William Stephenson, British industrialist...
...president of its first transatlantic airline-Aerovias Guest, S.A. With capital supplied by Guest and his U.S. and Mexican friends, the line has bought one Constellation, hopes to buy two more. Aerovias Guest plans to fly passengers between Mexico City, Lisbon and Madrid (eventually also to Paris and London), via Miami, Bermuda and the Azores...