Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote a letter to The National Aeronautical Association that was meeting in Washington last week, and suggested that an international air conference and exhibition be held next year to celebrate the silver (25th) anniversary of "the first flight by man in a power-driven heavier-than-air machine . . . made by Mr. Orville Wright, one of our fellow citizens...
...summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar to those in which the Army "Good Will Fliers" circled South America early this year, he will use for personal flying practice; as transport on inspection trips to Army Air Corps posts...
...diplomat, who sported spinach and used tobacco as a diet, is in the museum; the 1927 ambassador goes in for cigarets, safety razors, safety first, and social eminence, and is visable to the naked eyes of only those wandering Americans bearing mandates from Republican magnates. For all others?the air, the landscape, the department of the exterior...
...15th of June in 1904 was a blue and shining day. There were a few white patches of froth against the china sky and a warm wind loitered in the air, as gay as a song. The people who boarded the General Slocum that morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion...
...conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience at the Salle Builler. Soon police swarmed 'round this innocuous auditorium. When the meeting came to order, its chairman smilingly gestured at empty air and introduced "Our honored leader." A voice was heard. Although sepulchral, it was unmistakably the voice of M. Daudet. Policemen cocked their ears a moment, then strolled disgustedly away. They could not arrest the loudspeaker. M. Daudet was at Brussels, 192 miles away, cheerfully addressing a radio microphone...