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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...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Crowd Watches 'Poon Balloon Burst | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Howard L. Kastol, | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Up from the Mailbags | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 8, 1951 | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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