Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...findings. From a bed in the Reading Hospital, T.W.A. Captain Richard Brown, the plane's sole survivor, said that smoke swirling up through the baggage hatch was so intense that it was impossible to see the pilot across the flight deck, that he had as a last resort attempted to land blind...
Both bidders want to use the 2,815-mile system for natural gas transmission, are favored by Wall Street to win. But the Government will accept their proposals only as a last resort. It wants the lines used for petroleum products, will give first choice to buyers or lessors who promise to use it for them. One reason: Big Inch's daily throughput of 300,000 barrels of crude, Little Big Inch's 235,000 barrels of gasoline would be on tap for any national emergency...
...unenviable task under the pressures of industry, consumers' groups and labor. Its first job is to decide, by Aug. 20, whether meat, milk, poultry, eggs, soybeans and cotton seed (and all food products made from these commodities) shall remain exempt from ceilings. As a court of last resort, it can overrule the OPA, the Department of Agriculture or any industry advisory committee on price regulation...
...Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...