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...crowd of about 2,000 gathered at 1 p.m. yesterday to watch the Lampoon's attempted balloon ascension to the moon. The time seemed auspicious, the winds and temperature correct; but the attempt came to naught when a hidden marksman blasted the balloon to smithereens just before the take...
...number of flights that any non-scheduled line can make during a week. For this reason the air coaches take off only when they have a full load. They try to book several weeks in advance, but in many cases they do not fill up a flight by take-off time. When this happens they borrow passengers from other independent lines or delay the flight until they can round up a full complement. With no empty seats, the non-scheduled lines are able to cut down their cost easier than the scheduled lines...
...take-off or landing of a domestic scheduled airliner on an average of every eight seconds. Last year 17,162,000 passengers rode the U.S. airways, compared to only...
Irving Berlin's newest offering Call Me Madam, features noisy Ethel Merman in an apparent take-off on Perle Mesta, current ambassador to Luxembourg. Berlin's score has been effectively combined with a Lindsay and Crouse book to make one of the top musicals of this, or any other, season. (Imperial...
...Take-Off. In Elbowoods, N. Dak., the Fort Berthold Indian Agency's news bulletin reported that George Drags Wolf had changed his name to George Crow Flies High...