Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, TIME correspondents in Chicago, Los Angeles, Hot Springs, Ark., San Francisco, New Orleans and Naples (Gangster Lucky Luciano's current retreat), and Researcher Anne Lopatin were doing their own digging into the Costello past and present. Much of it was the business of tracking down rumors which often proved to be untrue, and triple-checking the facts. In the midst of his New Orleans investigation Correspondent Ed Ogle answered his telephone and the following conversation took place...
...that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...years, China's commercial airlines - built and operated with the help of American personnel- had flown passengers and cargo through every kind of weather, across a land whose ground communications, always bad, were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...coup had been carefully planned. Two months ago, the Communists had sent two ex-Nationalist transport officials, who now served the Reds, to Hong Kong, where the airlines had their head offices. The emissaries managed to persuade most of the airlines' Chinese personnel, who were tired of continued retreat and fearful of losing their jobs, to come over to the winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour...
...although deaf, commanded the scouts in General Sam Houston's army. "Deaf" Smith swam the flooded Buffalo Bayou, captured a courier with dispatches for Santa Anna and, on the morning of the battle of San Jacinto, burned the only bridge on which the Mexicans could retreat...