Word: airport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...
...group, which plans to do its flying at the Bedford airport through the East Coast Aeronautical Company, is open to both Harvard and Radcliffe students. An arrangement with the company will enable club members to learn to fly at special rates...
...wildest came from young (41) Commander Eugene Tatom. Trying to show that the expensive atomic bomb had to be dropped accurately to be effective, Commander Tatom told the astonished committeemen: "You could stand in the open at one end of the north-south runway at the Washington National Airport, with no more protection than the clothes you now have on, and have an atom bomb explode at the other end of the runway without serious injury...
...Balance Your Budget." Today the memories of the struggle dissolve into melancholy. In the fifth month of the post-blockade "peace," Berlin is a city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...