Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charleston, W. Va., about 450 miles to the west, another Capital Airlines four-engined plane from upper New York State and Pittsburgh also bound for Atlanta crashed while attempting to land. Two bodies were recovered from the wreckage and at least 13 were hospitalized...
BALTIMORE, May 12--A big Capital Airlines New York-to-Atlanta Viscount plane with 27 passengers and a crew of four exploded in flight late tonight about 15 miles east of Baltimore. Twenty-nine bodies were recovered within two hours from the scattered debris...
...middle of the Siberian nowhere, a shawled, frail woman herds passengers aboard a plane with the shout: 'Let's go, comrades, we are Russians! Let's hurry. We must be first, first in everything...
...forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections, and an independent...
This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...