Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young sold short himself and made his first million. Soon he bought a seat * Sister of famed Painter Georgia O'Keeffe. on the Exchange, set up a brokerage shop with an old friend from G.M., Frank F. Kolbe. Young, Kolbe & Co. nourished on the Depression. The firm specialized in the fine art of grabbing up securities that looked worthless, then stepping in to run the properties involved. By 1937, Bob Young had added another $4 million or $5 million to his bankroll, and considered retiring...
...passenger takes his seat in an airliner, he is not apt to feel that he is a specially marked person-usually quite the contrary. Young Bill Keyes, settling into his seat in an Eastern Airlines DC-3 in Detroit, felt as air passengers usually feel-partly like a piece of baggage, partly like a lonely soul. As the plane stopped at Cleveland and Akron, the seats filled up around him. Dozing, thinking of his vacation-to-come at home in Boynton, Fla., he scarcely watched as the plane lifted over the Alleghenies and dropped down toward the Carolinas...
...pilot's seat, Capt. H. M. Haskew was getting reports of dirty weather ahead at Winston-Salem. At 1:10 a.m. he reported that he was over Greensboro at 7,000 feet; over Winston-Salem (17 miles west of Greensboro) at 1:15 a.m. Directed by air traffic control, he let down to 4,000 feet. At 1:33 a.m. he was cleared to the Winston-Salem tower for landing...
...Gasoline was burning all around the gutted wreckage. His helper, Lawrence Mays, was already there. "The man was still hollering 'help, help, help,'" Delp said. "I saw he couldn't get out and I went under the fuselage and we pulled him out seat...
...blonde screamed: "Let me out . . . let me out!" "You shut your trap," said Percy Boon. The car sped over London's lonely, foggy Wimbledon Common, and Police Constable Lamb, leaping over the curb to safety, glimpsed the struggling couple in the front seat. A few hours later, detectives in raincoats were standing over the blonde's dead body-while Percy, hatless, bloody, hysterical, ran desperately for shelter in the myriad streets of London...