Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What of the Night? Biggest crime was the theft from an Orly airfield customs shed of over $168,000 worth of gold, awaiting shipment to the Bank of Indo-China. With a departing Paris-Algiers plane drowning out their noise, three men had broken into the shed after midnight, heaved three kegs of the gold into a small sedan and driven away. Most memorable figure in the drama, though scarcely its hero, was Watchman Jean Quiniou, who arrived on the scene just as the men were driving off. "Had I been two minutes earlier," Watchman Quiniou pointed out philosophically, "they...
Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...
Rescue Party. By treaty, uniformed U.S. or Mexican soldiers may enter the others' country on legitimate errands, provided they go unarmed. In this case, although it was contrary to the letter of the law, there was some excuse for bearing arms: the lost plane carried 200,000 pesos in cash. (Actually, the cash had been recovered by Mexican authorities before the U.S. soldiers reached the scene...
Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick was off on another global tour in his newest plane, a surplus Flying Fortress with machine guns removed. Objective this time: darkest Europe. Before leaving, he reassured all potentially anxious friends: "One could make a million flights before three of the four engines would fail simultaneously ... If all [five] of the crew should become incapacitated, I can hold the plane on an even keel and hit Europe somewhere...
...start Mayor La Guardia gathered together 250 leading citizens as a reception committee. Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music. Overhead Ruth Nichols . . . roared in her plane scattering roses . . . Along Lower Broadway . . . [the street] was snowbound with ticker tape ... At the City Hall the proceedings were broadcast, and the vibrant voice of the new General, pleading and purposeful, claimed...