Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried to rise above the 10,000-ft. peaks around...
Just as George Ford played a prominent part in the only other loss to date, Fred Mosely, another former captain and ace, was largely responsible for repulsing his former teammates...
...years brown-faced, square-shouldered George Leoles, 48, was known by his fellow Atlantans as a useful, loyal U. S. citizen. Ace hat cleaner of smoky Atlanta, each morning he left his popular little shop opposite the Federal Reserve Bank, smilingly made the rounds of Atlanta businessmen's downtown offices picking up their dusty hats to clean. He was active in the Parent-Teacher Association of the Crew Street School, attended by his shy, 12-year-old daughter Dorothy. One day a little more than a year ago, the principal of Dorothy's school noticed...
Without the services of Captain F. Skiddy von Stade, six goal ace who had been playing in South America during the fall, the polo team clashes with the Ramblers, local Class A outfit, in the season's opener at the Commonwealth Armory tonight...
...ACE OF KNAVES-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). A murder, forged bonds, a clash with big British smugglers, a fight with a blackmailer who threatens to carve the faces of movie stars, provide the complications of three novelettes about that brash and amusing Robin Hood called the Saint. Exciting...