Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private-line fleet in the service, led the way across the mid-Pacific via Hawaii. Eight other U.S. lines soon followed, plus one of Belgium's Sabena airliners lent as a contribution...
...Constellations. Capital Airlines has "skeletonized" its camp service. American Airlines has dropped four cities off its cargo routes. Other lines are getting by with makeshift schedules, but these will not hold up if MATS decides it needs more planes on the Pacific lift. This week, General Tunner plans to make a flying inspection of the lift, and a firsthand estimate of its future needs...
...Detroit, Federal District Judge Frank A. Picard ordered the stockholders to accept the offer, and accused those who held out for a larger sum of "trying to cause Henry Kaiser's financial eclipse." Said Judge Picard: "Kaiser was the victim of his own paternalism in trying to make the K-F company a success," and was innocent of any "fraud, deceit, collusion or any wrongful...
Racial tensions have now been pictured on the screen frequently enough to have lost some of their novelty. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and co-Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...
Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...