Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route to the Pacific Coast by plane, the merchandising manager of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, read a 15-line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser...
...husky C-54 transport nosed through the morning haze over Washington National Airport one day last week and coasted to a landing. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson helped crewmen push a big aluminum ramp up to the plane while the rest of the Pentagon's top brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany...
...Engene Nelson, who was to have joined Dr. Saul Hertz of the Medical School in a project to apply unclear physics to medicine, was killed with his wife. Anne Elizabeth, when their light plane crashed near Pine Plains New York Sunday night...
...story of how Joe Parkson, a lame vet, played by Robert Ryan, stalks a prosperous contractor (Van Heflin) who was his senior officer when their plane was forced down during the war and the crew thrown into a German concentration camp. Parkson and ten others had a tunnel built through which they planned to escape. Frank Enley (Heflin) tried to persuade them not to attempt it but when they defied him Enley went to the Nazis, who agreed to leniency in view of the fact that Enley reported the scheme. The Nazis weren't lenient. Parkson was the only...
...fetish for punctuality is a Rio legend. "If the President has an appointment outside the palace for 9 o'clock," says an aide, "his hat must be brushed and on a table beside the door by 7." On a trip to Bolivia last summer the presidential plane was scheduled for a 6 a.m. takeoff...