Army Air Force Lays Claim To Record Flight From Flood Waters
Lt Col Robert L. Rizon of the 1st Rescue Squadron described a record C-47 flight evacuating 93 passengers plus crew from a flooded airstrip near Trinidad Bolivia. The aircraft, after landing with 97 aboard, lifted off as the runway ended, climbing to 18 000 feet over Andes to reach Coachabamba. Nurses helped oxygen for babies while mothers watched.
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Army Air Force
RAF
Trinidad
Bolivia
Instay
Robert L. Rizon
Caribbean Air Command
Panama Canal Zone
Washington
Sey
Coain
Chabatia
Rrunway
Coachabamba
Andes
Evacuation Mission Through Storm Clouds and Moon
An exhausted pilot guided evacuations lasting sixteen days through severe weather. Two of six hundred evacuees were dropped during rain passes at Conch. Once moved out, 217,000 pounds of abamba field supplies were flown in and the sweating crews delivered critical provisions.
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Abamba
France and Britain Patch Up Europe Economy Despite Soviet Veto
Tom Williams reports from Paris that Britain and France seek to restore Europe’s economy with the Marshall Plan despite Soviet refusal to participate. The Paris conference ended bitterly with Molotov warning of division, while Western observers see the veto as a diplomatic setback but not a failure, shaping future talks in London and beyond.
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G.B
France
Europe
Tom Williams
London
Paris
Britain
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
U. S
Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Washingen
United Nations
Conference of
Calital
Paris conference weighs fate of Europe and Russia
British informants foresee two paths from the Paris meeting on the Marshall plan. One risks economic and political isolation of Russia and its orbit. The other could shock the Soviet bloc into recognizing Europe’s recovery hinges on Western cooperation.
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United Nationa General Assembly
Béptember
New York
Paris
Russia
Europe
U. S
Soviet Union
London
Ateast
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Finland
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Spain
Franco
Marshall Pilar
Communist Party
France
Marshall
French National Assembly
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Czech Leaders Head to Moscow for Possible Stalin Talks
A surprise announcement reported that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk would travel to Moscow for possible talks with Molotov or Stalin. The move followed prior Czech openness to the Marshall Plan before Russia declined it.
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Russia
Klement Gottwald
Jan Masaryk
Moscow
Molotov
Stalin
Locke and Oliver Begin 36 Hole Playoff in All American Golf
South African Bobby Locke and Ed Oliver of Wilmington, Delaware, opened a 36 hole playoff for seven thousand dollars in the All American golf tourney after a dramatic 72nd green deadlock. Locke added a five thousand dollar guarantee as the prima donna of George S May's Tom O Shanter spectacle, and both men faced a tense start in Chicago.
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Chicago
Bobby Locke
Porky) Oliver
Wilmington
Del
Locke
George S. May
Tom O'Shanter
Oliver
French paper cites new American atom bomb test claim
L Intransigeant reports Paris military circles say a U S atomic bomb capable of destroying Paris or Moscow was tested in New Mexico. The device supposedly blasted a 2700 foot deep and 11 mile wide hole, with a sim city mockup destroyed. Technical details were not disclosed and the test reportedly consumed 14000 tons of silver.
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Paris
Moscow
New Mexico
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
American Science and Technology
Common Cause
Committee For A World Charter
Lil
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Louis Rissone
Swin Sandgren
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