Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...
Doing the thing in a big way, Nebraskans sent to President Hoover an airmail letter 3 ft. x 2 ft. inviting him to Nebraska's Diamond Jubilee celebration. The President sent regrets, but tens of thousands of other citizens from nearly every State, from Canada, from Alaska, last week journeyed to Omaha to attend Nebraska's three-day 75th birthday party...
...passengers was making east of Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week. The pilots, Vernon Lucas and F. N. Erickson, dropped flares, landed comfortably in six inches of snow and by radio kept telling Albuquerque that they were safe. Their caution exemplified the policy of T. A. T., whose transcontinental airmail service has been running surely and safely since its bad wreck two months...
...Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail...
...Black Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...