Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These two, together with Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, prance through a script which seems a flimsy, somewhat gruesome takeoff on Guys and Dolls, since it concerns the attempts of a playboy to win the hand of a prissy Salvation Army-type girl. Regrettably, The Belle of New York lacks both the Broadway characters and the amusing lyrics of Guys and Dolls, and there is nothing substituted for them...
...runway was not yet in operation last Sunday night, when National Airlines' Flight 101 rolled out for takeoff. With 59 Miami-bound passengers, the four-engined DC-6 climbed south over the moonlit marshes...
...walk around the grounds with Philip, then climbed into a car for the drive to Nanyuki Airport. A Dakota flew the royal couple to Uganda, where the same four-engined Argonaut that brought them from London was waiting to carry them home again. A few minutes after the first takeoff, the plane's pilot picked up a radio message of condolence from Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then, at last, Britain's Queen broke down in sobs...
Light snow blew across the Buffalo Airport one afternoon last week as American Airlines Flight 6780, bound for Newark, taxied out for takeoff. The sky was overcast, ceiling 3,000 ft., visibility two miles...
Government work of Mark I included an assignment for the Air Force when it was planning to construct a model of a jet engine with a takeoff unit incorporated in it. Mark I proved this development impractical and the Air Force cancelled their order for the model. According to Aiken, the money that Mark I saved the taxpayers would be sufficient to run the computer for two and one-half years...