Word: thunderbird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he was back at one of his old campuses, Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., "the country club of the Air Corps." He was also back in the education business, this time in a private way. Barton Yount was president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, newly organized as a nontaxable, non-profit educational corporation...
...buildings from Provincial Premier John Hart, announced that it would offer first-year courses in medicine and pharmacy in September. It was also making plans to teach dentistry, optometry, music, dramatics, physical education, possibly journalism. In noncultural fields it was soaring, too. The Thunderbird basketball team (sometimes called the "Blunder-thirds' ) had surprised everybody by trouncing some crack U.S. college teams...
Last week, having just finished revising his own eight-year-old South By, Thunderbird,* a journal of a South American plane trip, 51-year-old Professor Strode could take time out to puff away at his pipe and look at the record. Although he says of his course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year...
...Beautiful Meal. Then King went visiting, first privately to an R.C.A.F. bomber group whose squadrons bear the nostalgic names Snowy Owl, Alouette, Thunderbird and Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when...
Germany tightened up. The news in Berlin was bad. The Axis was losing North Africa. Italy, always uncertain, was growing more uncertain as the threat of invasion increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...