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Word: sixings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, six airline employees' labor unions ran large ads asking CAB to put a stop to it, on the grounds that the planes were unsafe. But CAB ruefully admitted that it had no police powers within a state, unless a local flight had interstate connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Happy Days | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Resourceful U.S. domestic wildcats had found another way to get around CAB regulations. By keeping their flights entirely within the borders of one state, they could flip their tails at CAB. In California, six wildcats flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco for $9.95-less than half the fare charged by United, American and four other certified carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Happy Days | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...American, United, Capital and Western) which had losses in 1949's first quarter thought it had earned enough in the second quarter to wipe them out and show a profit besides. American, for example, might well show a net of close to $3,000,000 for the first six months, more than enough to offset its entire 1948 loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Happy Days | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...granted six similar guarantees totaling $2,670,000, but all for industrial projects in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Old Family Quarry | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Errol Leslie Flynn, 40, cinemactor; by Nora Eddington Flynn, 25; after six years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Nora announced that she would marry Crooner Dick Haymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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