Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the 30 passengers who escaped unhurt from the flaming crash of a Mid-Continent Airline Convair at Tulsa, Okla. one day last week were Dr. and Mrs. James D. Alway of Aberdeen, S.D., bound for Mexico on a vacation. Dr. Alway had been a pilot in World War I, but it was 49-year-old Mrs. Alway's first airline trip. When newsmen talked to her later, she was mainly worried because her vacation wardrobe, including a new spring coat, had been destroyed in the fire. Of her narrow escape she said simply: "My husband...
...hostages stopped twice more, once at a filling station in Randlett, Okla., once at Winthrop, Ark., but neither Mosser, his wife, nor his children made any outcry. Two days later, the blue car was foundempty, bullet-pierced and drenched with bloodin the hills near Tulsa...
...cataloguing its contents, wept when he came to one item: two Hopalong Cassidy hats. A nationwide alarm went out; police set up roadblocks across half a dozen states. But William Cook and his .32 vanished. Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.1,600 miles from Tulsaa deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends...
Douglas Aircraft Co. began cleaning out the ⅞ of a mile-long, 62-acre factory in Tulsa, Okla., in which it made B-24s and A-26s during World War II. Douglas hopes to be at work within six months turning...
There was also talk of other big war contracts. Douglas Aircraft Co. was negotiating with the Air Force and the Boeing Airplane Co. to build B-47 jet bombers in an idle Government plane plant in Tulsa, Okla. It would be the first time since World War II that any company other than Boeing has produced Boeing planes -but Douglas would not be able to get into production for 18 months at least. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was dickering to build Fairchild C-119 transports at Willow Run; even General Motors was said to have a deal cooking to build Republic...