Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said General Lucius Clay last July, "to build the airlift up to 4,000 tons a day." Last week, airmen of the U.S. Air Force and Britain's R.A.F. set new airlift records and doubled the general's goal. On Washington's Birthday they landed one plane every 90 seconds, flew 7,513 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin. Next day, learning that the Russians were celebrating Red Army Day, airmen stepped up their load again, roared in with 7,897 tons. Two days later, with their holiday momentum still intact, they brought in 8,025 tons...
...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss Leeward's problems...
Broadway's Billy Rose stepped off the plane at Honolulu, cracked from beneath a yoke of traditional leis: "I feel like a well-kept grave...
...request for a 3,000-mile range was proof that the missile men had some hope of solving problems that were regarded a few years ago as Buck Rogerish dreams. A guided missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...