Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian navy has historically been handicapped by geography-graphically illustrated this summer when a cruiser and two destroyers had to make the long and circuitous passage via the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and the Danish narrows simply to transfer from the Black Sea to the Baltic fleet...
...type of commercial well blew in last week. It was the most ambitious test to date of pay-in-the-parlor TV. From the Lyric Theater, a double feature (The Pajama Game and Mississippi Gambler) flashed from noon to midnight into 300 living rooms via coaxial cable, thus presumably avoiding FCC supervision...
...Wisconsin and in Washington, Republicans made no effort to disguise their shock. "There's no hiding the fact," said Dwight Eisenhower, via press secretary James C. Hagerty, "that we took a bad licking." Said Vice President Richard M. Nixon: "It was the old story of a united, vigorous minority party with a hard-fighting, resourceful candidate defeating a divided, bickering, over-confident majority." Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler called it "a smashing repudiation of the Eisenhower Administration and Modern Republicanism...
...mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways, became a member of the Fiji Parliament...
England Mutual Life Insurance Co. called its tightly packed offset paper The Spare Wheel ("For Use in Emergencies Only"), noted on Page One that its 30-odd news items a day, "unless otherwise indicated, are furnished via the international wires of the United Press...