Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the roofs of the palace and the Defense Ministry across the street. At 11 a.m. four Sabre jets, three Vampires and three elderly light bombers began to cut through holes in the clouds and buzz the city low across rooftops. "Those crazy cowboys!" remarked a watching Pan American pilot from his poolside deck chair at the Hotel Tamanaco, a mile or two away. In the afternoon, as a more urgently signaled plea for army help, the airmen strafed the palace and Seguridad headquarters, dropped four bombs (only one burst, killing no one). A Vampire, hit, trailed black smoke, landed...
...bases, hopes flagged fast. At 1 o'clock Major Carrillo and 16 other young officers took off for refuge in Barranquilla, Colombia, 475 miles westward; as a defiant-and unnerving-last gesture, they used Pérez Jiménez plush-job DC-4, with trusted Personal Pilot Martin Parade flying. Ironically, the attacking battalions paused part way at Los Teques and began going over to the uprising just as the airmen fled; when the army units were talked into surrender the next morning, the revolt was over...
Boston's diocesan Catholic paper The Pilot quickly came back at Blanshard: "The three questions are expressed in a manner that misrepresents authentic Catholic teaching on the subject in question. Catholics have no 'boycott' of public schools: the American Catholic hierarchy have never made an 'attack...
Mohawk Airlines, a feeder line chiefly serving New York State, hired Ruth Carol Taylor, 26, of Manhattan, and next week she will begin training as the first Negro stewardess on a scheduled U.S. airline. She is the second Negro to be hired for passenger flight duty (the first: Pilot Perry H. Young, 38, of New York Airways helicopter service). Ruth Taylor, Boston-born, attended Elmira College, graduated as a registered nurse from Manhattan's Bellevue School of Nursing, worked as a nurse for the New York City Transit Authority before signing on with Mohawk...
...staff. Of his 60,580 workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished product stable. By improving our productivity and our workers' living standards...