Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...Atlanta, Georgia's Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was fined $3 by a traffic judge for parking too long in a restricted zone...
Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
...Thompson casually admitted that he was no great shakes as a navigator anyhow. He was actually just a pilot-navigator. But he had boned up on the subject and relied on ten years of experience as a yachtsman. He had flown the Atlantic round trip only once before, had never heard of radioed wind and weather broadcasts from New York...
...Pilot Martin and Navigator Thompson were not in the least abashed by their testimony. In reply to the question of one exasperated CAB examiner, Martin replied coolly, "Well, I still think we did all right...