Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Air Lines, nine hours out of Los Angeles and two hours east of Chicago, was purring sweetly at 17,000 feet over ridge-ribbed central Pennsylvania. In his four-engined 300-m.p.h. DC-6, Veteran Pilot George Warner Jr. received his clearance from the traffic-control tower at New York City's La Guardia Field-meaning that he could let down gradually in the next 230 miles for his approach to New York...
...Frank Knox Fellowship for study in the British Commonwealth went to Joseph Dee Everingham '49, of Clear-water, Florida, and Kirkland House, while the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French university was gained by John Marshall Alcorn '45 of Pontiac, Illinois, and Eliot House. Both men are in History and Literature...
...about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation...
...There was also hope that they would not meet in an overcrowded Tower of Babel but, as it were, upon a mountain top ... To some extent, events have moved in that direction but not in the spirit or the shape which was needed...
...Y.M.C.A. The "Y" secretary has been trying to get the place declared a neutral international zone-sort of hallowed ground like the Holy Sepulchre. The trouble is that it stands on a hill which dominates the old city and the road to Hebron. And it has a tower 176 ft. high-ideal for snipers. Both Arab and Jewish authorities have listened politely to a committee of worried pressmen. But the answer has amounted to this: O.K. in principle, but we're afraid we can't guarantee that some of our people won't attack the place...