Word: roig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anything Happened." One day last week Saint-Exupéry's goddaughter rode high in the sky over the Atlantic. Dark-haired Suzanne Roig was the daughter of Georges Roig, an old friend of the novelist and one of France's pioneer aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced...
Planemaker Donald Douglas sat down in the Wings Club in Manhattan with the presidents of three airlines. Panagra's Harold J. Roig, American Airlines' A. N. Kemp and United Air Lines' W. A. Patterson. When Planemaker Douglas left, 12 minutes later, he had in his pocket the fattest airline contracts ever placed in the U.S. aircraft industry. The contracts gave Douglas the job of building 93 four-engined airliners, more than $50,000,000 worth, for postwar delivery...
Same day three anti-German agitators were put to death: one Szmul Tysselman, a Jewish emigre; one Henri Gautherot, a zealous French nationalist; one Jose Roig, a recruiter for De Gaulle...