Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch for the rebel ships. When Castro finally appeared, he was in a single motor boat, towing a barge, and flying a Mexican flag. A government coast guard cutter closed in, and the rebels, trying to escape, promptly ran aground on the shore. At this point a government fighter plane appeared and strafed the barge, so that Castro's men, numbering somewhere from fifty to a hundred, dived into the forest and dispersed. The Times happily labeled its article "Cuban Rebels Take to the Hills...
Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...figured that adding a third pilot would be plain featherbedding. Smith changed his mind after American's operations men, who have been studying the line's first Boeing 707 jet in test runs since October, reported that a third pilot is needed, along with an engineer. The plane flies so fast that two pilots should always be at the controls, American decided, requiring a third pilot to take over when one of the other two is taking a break. The third pilot would also handle communications and navigation...
...shares of preferred stock (its common stock rose from a '58 low of 10⅛ to 27⅛ last week). The line will get more than $10 million by trading in its nine double-deck Boeing Stratocruisers to Lockheed and five DC-7s to Douglas. Though the used-plane market is glutted, Northwest swung the trade-in because it held back, was the last major U.S. line to place firm orders for jets, thus was courted energetically by the planemakers. By ordering late, Northwest figures to get more advanced jets...