Word: roe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...
Down a runway at Toronto's Malton airport last week roared the first commercial jet transport to fly in North America. The silver and yellow "Jetliner" built by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. took off, circled at 200 ft., then zoomed sharply to 13,000. An hour and ten minutes later Test Pilot James Orrell brought his aircraft in for a smooth landing in summer-heated bumpy air. "It was a piece of cake," he said happily. "She handled like a fighter. Terrific...
...Louis, Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe wondered whether he should have invited his father, Dr. Charles E. Roe, to come up from Viola, Ark. to watch him work. The Preacher went to the showers after six innings against the Cardinals, and father Roe went home minus $80 lifted by a ballpark pickpocket...
Died. Humphrey Verdon Roe, 71, pioneer British aviator and co-founder of A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. (manufacturers of Britain's World War II Lancaster bomber), husband of popular sexologist Dr. Marie Carmichael (Married Love) Stopes; after long illness; in London...
Trailing the league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...