Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burk was a lanky, wide-eyed New Jersey kid who couldn't keep away from water. In the time he could spare from helping his father raise apples and peaches, he learned to row, eventually became the world's sculling champion. War brought Joe, appropriately, to the Navy. The Navy made him an officer and skipper of a speedy PT boat...
...added 1,000 Ib. per plane would not solve the airlines' wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed...
There was trouble between Moscow and London this week. A row broke into the open, ostensibly over the shape and complexion of postwar Poland. But the sound of the brawling stirred the old ghosts which plain people everywhere had hoped were laid for good & all at Teheran...
...implications, and probably the real roots, of the row went beyond the sore question of Poland's boundaries and Government. But, at least on the surface, that troubled issue had precipitated the quarrel...
...most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply WAVES!!! . . . Now, pleeeaaasee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning and he was bumpin' his gums, giving his gang the row-down . . . Oh, yeah, all the classes are gonna be held in Memorial Hall, too . . . At least, that's my latest info...