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...Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes had been the first reporter to check in, and the P-D had consistently run more coverage than any other U.S. paper. He put up cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when...
Zipping over Dayton's Wright Field in a sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that...
...amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
...from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the answer to the most publicized of recent airplane crashes. The cause: a smoking short circuit in the forward baggage compartment of the sleek Connie, where wires from the generators are piped into the pressurized fuselage...
...little mountain land, there was no feeling of greatness and only a little pride, but there was plenty of thankfulness and happiness. Fields were heavy with ripening grain. Throughout the smiling countryside, barelegged children, plump and rosy, waved to sleek, swift trains running on Swiss-clocklike schedule. In the cities, there was industrial peace, assured by the no-strike agreement which the big unions had pledged after winning substantial gains in pay and working conditions...