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...Yale newspaper, which telephoned Seattle, reported that the chartered DC-3 carrying 27 New Haven-bound students and three crew-members was from five to ten feet in the air when one wing dipped and touched the runway...
...city. Gangs of padded-gowned forced labor leveled telephone poles, trees and buildings on the approaches to the strip. Enterprising citizens dashed in to gather up precious firewood for their chilly hearths. Three days after construction began, two Chinese army cargo planes settled on to the perilously cramped runway. They were unable to take off again. Fu's airstrip seemed to be a one-way street...
...pictures, Betty Grable fans have had a hard time finding their girl beneath the ermine and the bustles. In this one, she appears in tights, slit skirts, and other examples of sensible Grable costume. Fortunately, the camera provides all the customers with seats well down front, just below the runway...
After six passes had emptied the plane, MacWilliams lowered the wheels and circled down for a landing. The heavy plane hit the rutted field in a cloud of dust, bounced a hundred yards, settled again and ground to a stop at the very end of the runway. Twenty minutes later two shells screamed in from the south and tore into the ground across the runway, abeam of the plane...
...away. Soon after, a Guardia officer called the barracks, reported that Sandino had given the Masonic sign of distress. Freemason Somoza, unmoved, roared: "Carry out your orders!" At La Aviación field, on the southeast edge of Managua, guns cracked. Sandino is buried, say Nicaraguans, just under the runway TACA planes...