Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
Last week fast-moving ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman made a fast trip to Europe to try to stop the dismantlement and removal-for reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed...
...last week, the Sacred Cow (once President Truman's personal plane) landed in Athens. Out stepped Secretary of State George Marshall, who had left his wearisome business in Paris to have a look into the even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a little embarrassed, were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these...
...George Marshall boarded his plane to return to Paris, a Greek newsman commented : "There goes the wisest statesman who has come to Greece in a long time. He promised nothing-and didn't try to tell us that the situation was fine...
...blind landing instruments (both G.C.A. and I.L.S.) and Fido (fog-dispersing oil burners). Through the soup over Arcata one day last December, a Southwest Airways DC-3 made the world's first blind landing with all three systems on a scheduled commercial run. Since then, Southwest, a ten-plane "feeder" line between 24 California and Oregon small towns, has made 1,200 routine instrument landings at Arcata...