Word: schiphol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DUTY-FREE AIRPORT will open for intercontinental passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol field, following the profitable pattern of Europe's first duty-free air terminal at Shannon (TIME, Aug. 27). Dutch port next month will start selling tax-free liquor, tobacco and candy, later add cameras, watches, perfume...
...stunned. "What did I do? Arrested for jazzing," he moans. "Call the ambassador!" Tears off shirt. Washes. Puts on green wool shirt. Doesn't want catch cold. After 45 minutes go by, has cooled off. Police let him out. Band and Hampton drop into bus, churn off to Schiphol Airport and fly off. Real gone...
...transatlantic DC-6B, with only twelve of 66 seats occupied, was just 25 miles from the safety of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The pilot, Captain Charles Harman, 36, a veteran of 170 Atlantic crossings, was more than an hour ahead of schedule on a flight from New York's Idlewild Field. Some time in the next few minutes, the plane plummeted into the cold waters of the North Sea. Residents of the Dutch town of Schoorl reported that they heard an explosion, but no one knew what had gone wrong. All aboard were killed: 21 persons, including seven...