Word: montes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past fortnight, New Yorkers have been having their first look at daylong television. Beginning at 7 a.m. Du Mont's WABD flickers along all day until the regular evening program starts. The programs are strongly reminiscent of daytime radio: setting-up exercises, Broadway gossip, popular music, women's news-everything except soap opera...
...chief innovation is a television baby sitter called Du Mont Kindergarten at 8:30 a.m. This features a young woman named Pat Meikle, who tries to keep small fry pinned to their chairs with 30 minutes of fairy tales, alphabet instruction and handicrafts. The idea is to let mothers get on with their housework. Response has been so favorable that the program may be expanded to an hour...
...been going to Denver to see his brother. Martin Mitzkus, his boss on the ranch at Forsyth, Mont., had offered to fly him there. They had stopped overnight at Casper, Wyo., had started out again in the morning. Ranch-hand Alvey, a rugged man of 37, remembered how the red. single-engined Taylorcraft had headed in between two peaks of the Medicine Bow Range. Then a downdraft had seized it, and the plane crashed...
...note was sounded most clearly in his elaboration of his foreign policy. In Portland and at Seattle, he had warned foreign aggressors abroad not to mistake a domestic political campaign for the symptoms of disunity. 'At Great Falls, Mont., he said: "The totalitarian states must not misunderstand what is happening here . . . When we change our national Administration next January, as I firmly believe we will, it will be for the purpose of strengthening our country, cementing our national unity, and waging the peace with greater skill and effectiveness . . . And let no dictator or trigger-happy militarist anywhere make...
...knew how long the Berlin airlift would be needed. From the strictly economic viewpoint, the operation has been likened to carrying coal in a gold scuttle. But the U.S. Air Force last week took a step that was unmistakably businesslike. At the airbase at Great Falls, Mont., it opened a replacement training school for airlift pilots. A "little corridor" will be laid out on the surrounding plains, matching the 20-mile-wide lanes into Berlin. Traffic controls and communications will duplicate those in Germany. Training will include night and all-weather flying...