Word: plane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bright blue morning last week, the crew of a National Airlines DC-4 had cause to file an indignant complaint: "three Grumman-type fighters" buzzed their plane as they were passing over Dover, Del. Another complaint soon followed : the captain of an Eastern Air Lines Constellation reported that a Navy fighter howled toward his ship "on a collision course" as it was passing near Willow Grove, Pa. and did not veer off until it was only 150 yards away...
...half hours later, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...
...Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been cut. "We'll get you at the next meeting," yelled one man as Irving was escorted out by police. There would not be another meeting, retorted "Two-Cadillac" Irving as he boarded a plane back to Washington, "until this thing quiets down...
After that the bidding went on & on until Greece finally accepted canny Mahmout's price of $250.50 a mule. The Turk boarded a plane for Washington to collect his dollars. But he had underestimated the resourcefulness of U.S. mule skinners, such as Kansas City's Ferd Owen, biggest trader in the U.S. (TIME, July 14, 1947), and Texas' big dealer, Parker Jameson Horse & Mule...
...place and you'll get no place without it." Sam designed his own outfit and found it worked like a charm, cowing officious customs men and clearing the way through red tape to top men. Once he was even saluted by the commander of a British jet-plane field near London...