Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador has sent us his answer sheet for the last TIME News Quiz, which ran in the July 4 issue. He answered 91 of the 105 questions correctly, and is inclined to think that is quite a good mark. It is, in fact, considerably above average, and President Galo Plaza Lasso should be proud...
...Teething Troubles." Some airmen readily admitted that they had not always been so sure that the B-36 could meet that threat. One who did was General George Kenney, who ran the Mac Arthur air arm in the Pacific. In 1946, said Kenney, he had been so discouraged by the "teething troubles" of the B-36 that he had recommended cancellation of all further orders. But as B-36 performance began to improve, Kenney continued, his mind gradually changed. "It astonished me," he explained frankly. "The youngsters liked it. They said it handled good up there. I said good...
Last week sallow, bigheaded Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman and a member of the Communist national committee, took the stand and promptly ran afoul of the new Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have...
...Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
...protégé of Railroader James J. Hill, Budd ran the Burlington with the dash and vision of the old Great Northern empire builder. Taking over the depression-troubled "Q" in 1932, he put it on its feet by such business catchers as the first dieselized streamliner. And he made the "Q" famous as a training school for railroaders-including the Rock Island's John Farrington, Santa Fe's Fred Gurley, the Great Northern's Frank Gavin...