Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a straight face, the Tulsa Trades Council (A.F.L.) nominated a little group that it would like to see take the first rocket trip to the moon. Sample nominees: Westbrook Pegler ("because of his ability to report true facts"), H. V. Kaltenborn ("for his ability to accurately analyze new developments"), Fulton Lewis Jr. ("for his ability to expose shoddy administration...
...Their Finest Hour, on which Churchill put the finishing touches while on a painting trip in France last summer, he carries his readers on to the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. He also provided a Churchillian lesson for generals, politicians, and business executives on the importance of being the head...
...will introduce a similar service to Buenos Aires in a month. Pan Am's coach passengers will travel 52 to a DC-4 (as against the first class 30), and get only simple meals. But they will pay $169.50 less than the present New York-Buenos Aires round-trip fare...
This smoke-shrouded monster is Lockheed's 92-ton Constitution, the largest commercial-type land plane in use. Built for the U.S. Navy, the Constitution took off last week from Moffet Field, Calif., on its maiden passenger trip to Washington. Six auxiliary jets helped the plane cut its take-off run. The double-decked Constitution broke no speed records (it made the trip in 9 hrs. 35 min.), but it carried 90 people, the largest number ever flown in a nonstop transcontinental flight. Though Lockheed has no commercial orders for the plane, President Robert Gross thinks it would...
Despite a few mild laughs, the gag stretches thin during the 90 minutes it takes to get the harried honeymooners to bed. Whatever novelty the script suggests in turning a wedding trip into a family excursion is lost in the exhausted atmosphere of marital misunderstanding and reconciliation...