Word: rein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Super-Constellation Pinta of Iberia Airlines was coming in for its scheduled landing at Bermuda on the run from Havana to Madrid. It was 11:15 Pm. Captain Don Fernando Bengoa, 37, was at the controls. Also aboard was Captain Fernando Rein-Loring, 53, the airline's chief pilot. As the Pinta let down for the landing, the right wheel of the tricycle landing gear stuck. Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa tried unsuccessfully to dislodge it with the emergency hand pump. Captain Bengoa made several low passes over the field so the ground crew could inspect the wheel...
Meanwhile, Captain Rein-Loring and Pilot Bengoa were too busy to be nervous. The Bermuda airport had called Lockheed, the plane's manufacturer, in Manhattan and via short-wave radio put a landing-gear specialist in touch with the Constellation. He advised the pilot to try a more powerful auxiliary system built into the gear for just such emergencies; but it only broke a hydraulic line and made a normal landing out of the question. Captain Rein-Loring decided that the plane would have to be landed on its belly...
...passengers with pillows beneath their safety belts and show them how to hold their heads down before the crash. Some of the children began to cry. An old lady became hysterical. Padre Gonzalez Salas prayed harder. One of the passengers asked him for absolution. With permission from Captain Rein-Loring, the priest went through the plane preparing his fellow passengers for death with the act of contrition and prayer...
Last week, as the nation's builders clamored over the drop in housing starts caused by the tightening of mortgage money (see above). Housing Administrator Albert Cole promised the Mortgage Bankers Convention in Los Angeles: "I can assure you ... the hands that tightened the rein will not hesitate to loosen it when and as conditions so recommend...
...Desperate Hours, Director Wyler has subordinated his actors with unusual severity to the pace of the plot, and most of them have taken to the rein like the thoroughbreds they are. Bogart gives a piteously horrible impression of the essential criminal, the man who has to take because he is too weak to give. And Richard Ever, as the boy, is a regular little darb. Fredric March, by the dignity of his performance, lends to the father's role a sense of legendary size that reminds a moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity...