Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills...
...just one more attempt" by union leaders "to avoid their own great responsibilities by seeking to have a settlement decreed by Government action." So obstinately opposed were the parties to the dispute that Chief U.S. Mediator Joseph F. Finnegan, without hope of meeting the President's plea for nonstop negotiations, said he would "schedule meetings as they seem most productive...
...comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
...Four Cantabrigians who played contract bridge nonstop for 73 hr. 45 min. (618 hands, 87 rubbers), surpassing the old record...
...seat with fold-out table, reading lamp, call and air-flow buttons. With the jet, Delta, which put it in service from New York to Atlanta, got the jump on its chief competitor; Eastern Air Lines will not start jet service until January. For United, the coast-to-coast nonstop service came months behind the 707 flights of its chief competitors, American Airlines...