Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
Edward F. Shannon, Jr. 1G has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to the five winners from the University announced in yesterday's CRIMSON. A graduate student in English, Shannon received his undergraduate training at the University of Virginia...
...Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat." Replied the President of the U.S.: "You're a long-eared rabbit." Strangers might have been shocked at the exchange. But Harry Truman and the expressman were merely greeting each other as old political opponents of the Pendergast-Shannon ("Goats" v. "Rabbits")* Democratic rivalry in Kansas City...
...York's LaGuardia Field, striking pilots kept tabs from an automobile parked near the runway; but a picket line surrounded maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...
...runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...