Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
...dusk when he finished his last check of controls and engines. He taxied out to the head of No. 18. The line-squall was moving closer to the field. Baldwin could look into its black heart as he turned his four-engined craft into the wind. The tower gave the go-ahead. Baldwin shoved his throttles open. The big ship began to roll, accelerated, began eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger...
...watchful Russian Embassy, near Nanking's Drum Tower, heard the hot words and the enthusiastic applause. An Embassy subscriber visited Pan's Social Welfare Daily, asked for five copies of the issue carrying Pan's speech. Asked why he wanted so many, the Russian replied: "Oh, for our public libraries...
...stretch just short of the treacherous Chapel turn, running easily and widening a big lead. Rumors of foul play were quickly squelched by the Wellesley publicity offices, but the Cambridge daily had its best men conducting a Waban-wide search last night for suspicious circumstances in the shadows of Tower Court...
Under Government pressure, union leaders got most of London's dockmen back to work after four days of shipping jams that threatened serious food shortages. The Glasgow strikers accepted a Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...