Word: tailes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Benny Meyers would have been better off at 30,000 feet with a Zero on his tail. Hughes had testified that Meyers had asked him for a postwar job, and for a $200,000 loan to buy some $10,000,000 in war bonds on margin. Neil McCarthy, ex-Hughes executive, declared that Meyers told him "he had the same kind of deal with other people...
...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...
...plane was ready for water taxiing tests. He said he did not plan to fly it, but invited the committee members to attend anyway. None accepted. Hughes went ahead and launched the 200-ton, eight-engined monster with its wingspread (320 ft.) as wide as a city block, and tail (80 ft.) as tall as an eight-story building. With Hughes at the controls, the Hercules was towed out into California's Long Beach Harbor. Coast Guard vessels cleared the course. The big plane's motors were revved up and it began to move...
...attraction, Big Red outdrew Mammoth Cave. Two million people visited Faraway Farm just to see him. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lexington. On his birthdays, he was given elaborate cakes with carrot candles. Stablehands reportedly did a brisk business selling hairs out of his tail to superstitious horse-players. For Man o' War was the greatest of all U.S. race horses...
...that Christiansen puts his mark on the Ex-Press. Excerpts: "Such a coverage! Such splendour! Such magnificence! From Newell Rogers in Washington to Ralph Campion in Cock Fosters the heart of this paper beats strongly. . . . [But] it hurts when we miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays?' The phrase is absurd and should not be used...