Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed that Vaughan's crony, John Maragon, and two other representatives of the Verley Co. had managed to go to Europe on a business trip, during the period in which the freezers were being delivered, in an Army transport plane. The subcommittee's releases pointedly noted that on the return trip Maragon had attempted to smuggle expensive perfume oils into the country under his false declaration that it was champagne for the White House, and had never been prosecuted...
...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...
Convalescing after a minor operation, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla got the bulletins at his seaside home in Viña del Mar. An old hand at tackling crises, he ordered his plane made ready for the short flight to the capital, returned to La Moneda on the second day of the rioting...
...last week's test flight, the Jetliner's speed was held down to 317 m.p.h. Jam-packed with testing instruments, the plane is slated for months of rigorous shakedown flights; within six months a second Jetliner is expected to be ready for additional tests...
...prizes (roundtrip plane rides to the North Pole and Venezuela) were nontransferable and Noone was afraid that if he should go ("I'd rather go to Richmond on a bus"), he would have to pay income tax on the cash value of the journeys. Deciding against $1,000 in knitwear, Noone asked the manufacturer for a cash settlement. He was offered...