Word: reindeers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Theodore Honey, an obscure research engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Stewart plugs patiently away at an experiment to prove his calculations that the tail assembly of the Reindeer, a new transatlantic plane, will snap off from metal fatigue after 1,400 flying hours. In a trance of pure science, he is unperturbed by the fact that Reindeers already in passenger service will reach the estimated breaking point long before his laboratory proof can be ready...
...quite what to make of the absent-minded researcher, his new boss (Jack Hawkins) orders the experiment speeded up, dispatches him to Labrador to look into the crash of one of the new planes. Widower Stewart says goodbye to his gravely precocious daughter (Janette Scott) and shambles aboard a Reindeer. The trip starts brightly enough; a pretty stewardess (Glynis Johns) pampers him, and Movie Star Dietrich dozes just across the aisle. Then he learns that the plane is just past its crucial point of strain...
...jump (TIME, March 12), then went to Stockholm to board a boat that broke through Baltic Sea ice into Turku, Finland. In Helsinki she talked with officials of the 1952 Olympics, took a trip up into Lapland. There among the hospitable Finns she had a wild ride in a reindeer sleigh, skied, watched trotting races on the frozen Kemi River. Though she later divided three weeks between Paris and Brussels, her next long stop was again ski country, this time in Bavaria...
Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast...
...food committee, tear into them. He pointed out that in 1938 inmates of workhouses got three times as much meat as the maximum ration today. Laborites writhed as he ticked off some of the sources from which Britain's meat now comes: "Cargoes of goats arriving at Hull . . . reindeer meat from Lapland . . ." The Tory benches roared when he exposed "a considerable [government] export scheme of English meat to the U.S. ... Canada and-the Argentine!" Cried Crookshank: "In a world under Socialist administration, the U.S. sends coal to Newcastle and Britain sends meat to the Argentine...