Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Symbolically, the Combat Cargo Command had repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down...
Five Pouilly-Fuissés. At the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, the academy members were taking longer than usual to make their annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have...
Miller had little to say about the ticklish subject of coffee production and prices; the inference was that the State Department no longer considered the controversial Gillette report on coffee-market manipulations (TIME, June 19) a hot issue. Instead, he bore down on world issues. Said he: "It may perhaps...
Miller mentioned recent spectacular dollar earnings by Latin American countries selling strategic goods to the U.S., and warned that this flow of dollars, continued in the future, would bring a new danger of inflation, since the U.S. on a war-production footing must cut down or eliminate many exports. Nevertheless...
The new law will increase the number of tribunals dealing with amparos, and assign to each court three judges, all individually empowered to hand down fast judgments in amparo matters. The measure is intended to reduce the backlog of cases and insure judgment within a few days.