Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual European who puts his glass to his eye is likely to identify the U.S. today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...Russia and Japan last week began their first high-level talks since the war. Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik, usually scowly, invited photographers into the Embassy's sacrosanct conference room and smilingly offered a cigarette to the Japanese Ambassador, Shunichi Matsumoto. The Japanese diplomat, who does not smoke, accepted the cigarette and beamed. "Very congenial," said Matsumoto afterwards. "The atmosphere is very warm...
...smoke and skirmishing of the Army-McCarthy hassle last year, burly, bellicose H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel was one of the angriest men on the Pentagon side. Joe McCarthy correctly accused Hensel of "masterminding" the Army's case against McCarthy, falsely charged him with milking the Navy of $56,526.64 from ship-supply contracts during World War II. After the Senate Investigations Subcommittee dismissed the charges against Hensel, McCarthy obliquely admitted that they were false...
...MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung. The Red pilots failed to hit any Sabre, but the Americans shot up two of the enemy jets so badly that the pilots bailed out, and two other MIGs were seen tumbling toward the sea, trailing smoke. Score: two kills, two probables...
...made money for six years without a Government subsidy. Starting in 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibians, it had added a fleet of 13 dependable, twin-engined DC-35, carried 304,000 passengers annually (without a fatality). H.A.L. passengers had some gripes; they wanted to smoke aloft, complained of too few ticket offices, and charged that H.A.L. discriminated against Asians. In 1949 CAB decided that H.A.L...