Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. It has a speed of better than 200 m.p.h., can carry 50 fully equipped parachutists or an equivalent weight in light field artillery. It can fly the Atlantic with ease, as a British pilot demonstrated a few weeks ago. Fully loaded, it can make 1,500 miles nonstop. It is far superior to the Junkers 52, the transport the Nazis use most frequently, which has a range of 1,000 miles...
Heart of a City (by Lesley Storm; produced by Gilbert Miller). The only London theater that has never shut down, come blitz or blackout, is the tiny Windmill with its breezy nonstop revue. In Heart of a City English Playwright Storm has pictured backstage life at the Windmill while the bombs are falling outside. Lovely and lightly clad showgirls duck in & out of dressing rooms, rehearse, have their fun, lose their hearts, stifle their fears. The play is a tribute to two kinds of grit, "There'll Always Be An England" weaving in with "The Show Must...
...week. In spite of war's hell, high water and Pan American Airways, CAB approved American Export Airlines' petition to fly the New York-Foynes, Ireland route. Using its new $700,000, four-engined flying boat Excalibur (TIME, Jan. 26), Am Ex expects to make its first nonstop Atlantic crossing in April. For May-when two sister boats will be ready-its ambitious schedule calls for three crossings each way every week...
...bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took no orders," she claimed at a hearing last week. "I undertook something that I thought I could handle alone, and I guess I overreached myself." For lack of $7,500 bail she went...
...Diego. If all went well it would end seven hours later at Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, 1,200 miles across the plains and mountains of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Other Navy patrol bombers of the same type (Consolidated PBY) had made so many nonstop hops of 2,500 and 3,000 miles that this delivery flight from the factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water, was now rushing over a land where Spanish conquistadors, men in covered wagons, desert rats had died for want of water...