Word: round-the-world
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...more U.S. planes quicker, whose ferry pilots would be released for combat. It pleased the U.S., which would achieve a preliminary security by getting air bases flanking Dakar. It pleased Pan Am, which now needed only a Cairo-to-Singapore link to have the basis of the sole round-the-world postwar airline...
...last year a brainy, bespectacled ousted leader of Britain's Labor Party became a missionary. Just back from a round-the-world trip with long stopovers in Russia and Free China, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was convinced that despite the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Russia might yet be Britain's ally in World War II. His mission: to go to Moscow and help bring this about...
...India from twelve to 25 (see chart). Sailing totals have increased even more. Examples: Robin Line and American South African have upped sailings to Africa from 24 to 100 a year; American Export has 54 sailings to India against nine; American President Lines has increased round-the-world sailings from...
Schechter once arranged to have Pulitzer Prizewinner Arthur Krock broadcast from the men's room of a hotel. He is frank in describing his troubles with the round-the-world flight of Howard Hughes, which started out as an NBC exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being...
...raider had prepared himself well for his World War II job. In 1930 he poked about the Caribbean for two months with a crew of 46 U. S. youngsters, to teach them "a love of the sea." By 1937 he was back in his World War I hunting grounds on a two-year round-the-world junket. With his sailing yacht Seeteufel he slipped through Australian waters, taking soundings, making a picture record of his trip with the help of a Nazi Government photographer. A New Zealander who accompanied him from Auckland to Sydney discovered the Seeteufel buttressed with steel...