Word: round-the-world
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...Camden, NJ. the keel of another new liner was laid, that of the President Jackson, by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. The ship is the first of three $12 million, smokestackless streamliners for the American President Lines' round-the-world service...
...Honolulu Airport one day last week, a tiny, single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza was rolled out onto the runway. Into it stepped lanky, 29-year-old William P. Odom, round-the-world speed champion (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), dressed in a splashy tie, double-breasted suit and Homburg hat. Odom had managed to cram 300 gallons of gasoline into his red-and-silver monoplane, some in extra tanks on his wings and some in his cabin...
...Hughes, who controls T.W.A., the third of the three U.S. flag lines flying the North Atlantic. Damon had been an admirer of Howard Hughes since he had produced Hell's Angels, but had not met him until 1938 when Hughes was getting ready for his four-day, round-the-world flight. As the dashing, disheveled Hughes puttered around his plane, Damon, like any awed autograph hound, rushed up and introduced himself. They had since become friends. Said Damon: "I am a great admirer of Howard Hughes." Said Hughes: "Mr. Damon's reputation ... is such that any airline would...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...
...bridge room of Shanghai's American Club, ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, nine days out of Washington on a quick round-the-world trip, met some 35 foreign and Chinese correspondents last week. Trim and smiling in his double-breasted blue suit, Hoffman tried to be as responsive as possible. Sensibly, at the outset, he cautioned that he had no authority or qualifications to "determine or define" U.S. policy toward China. But, whatever his good intentions, the cautious, sensible-sounding words he then uttered were a kick in the teeth to the tottering Nationalist government and a boost, in effect...