Word: newfoundland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
...unusually fine day at Brize Norton Aerodrome, near London. The U.S. Air Forces C-54 let down to a perfect landing. Out piled 14 passengers and crewmen, including U.S. scientists and a Royal Air Force observer. No one had touched the controls all the way from Newfoundland. The plane had taken off, flown the Atlantic, and landed without a pilot...
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...
...Force announced today. The C-54 robot plane landed in Newfoundland after the 2400 mile from England...
Before the surprised U.S. State Department could do more than say: "This is extremely interesting news," the convention had voted, 34 to 3, to reject union with the U.S. The Evening Telegram nodded approvingly: "It is inconceivable that the people of Newfoundland were prepared to betray their allegiance for a mess of pottage...