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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Precision Operation | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Precision Operation | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Workers will soon finish the Boston approach, chief engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night. As soon as this is completed, bids will be taken for the main span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Span to be Ready in a Year | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Telling Garland not to move for five minutes and not to notify the police, the robber then fled down the street. The main instructor hastened to a nearby gas station and reported the incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Still Searching for Gunman Who Kidnaped College Instructor | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...Army's main threat, however, is in a powerful running attack, engineered by Arnold Galiffa with the help of Bobby Jack Stuart, Win Scott, and Rudy Cosentino. Coach Valpey is relying on his same defensive team to stop this fleet combination...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Soccer Team Meets Army Today; Eleven Tunes Up in Final Workout | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

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