Word: airfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilian pilot named Gustave Le Moine last week took an airplane up from Yillacoublay Airfield, military airdrome near Paris. Two hours later he came down with a new world record for airplane altitude: 45,264 ft. (Old record: Capt. Cyril F. Uwins...
...private plane, an ace pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House...
While Imperial and Nazi banners flapped, while bands blared and thousands marched and cheered at Berlin's Tempelhof Airfield Handsome Adolf outlined a legislative program: $250,000,000 public works project; reduction of domestic-interest rates; foreign trade agreements: conscription of labor "to make every German, regardless of birth or wealth, work with his hands once in his life...
...depart for a U. S. lecture tour, Britain's melancholy-looking Poet Laureate John Masefield announced he would not return to his famed home and private theatre on Boar's Hill near Oxford, would reside instead in Pinbury, Gloucestershire. Reason: the roaring planes of a new airfield two miles from Boar's Hill...
What was there to fear? Bat'a, who had already flown more than 20,000 miles, was more than willing to take what seemed to him the smallest of chances. The plane's engine roared. It thundered across the perfectly smooth Bat'a Airfield, be gan to climb, disappeared into the mist...