Word: airport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...
...Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...
Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
...hene (headman) of Techeman, and general president of the Ga Football Association (Alata Manche, Techeman and Ga are states on West Africa's Gold Coast). Last week the Osu flew some 3,000 miles to Britain, leaving twelve wives behind in his Accra palace. He landed at London Airport wearing red and green robes, a red hat spangled with jewels, and sandals whose soles were lined with silver. The Osu explained what had brought him to Britain: "I understand I can obtain free health treatment here. I think I will get a pair of spectacles...
Down a runway at Toronto's Malton airport last week roared the first commercial jet transport to fly in North America. The silver and yellow "Jetliner" built by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. took off, circled at 200 ft., then zoomed sharply to 13,000. An hour and ten minutes later Test Pilot James Orrell brought his aircraft in for a smooth landing in summer-heated bumpy air. "It was a piece of cake," he said happily. "She handled like a fighter. Terrific...