Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following year in the Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route, finally aroused active interest of Thompson Aeronautical Corp. of Cleveland...
...reached Pittsburgh last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
...York Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey, New York-Rome navigator of 1929, qualified for the first pilot's license he ever possessed. And Bert Acosta, who may not fly licensed planes because his pilot's license was suspended more than two years ago, cracked up a rickety 1919 Fokker at Roosevelt Field...
...floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match and got it when its captain, Walter Hagen, a linen hat pulled down on the back of his thick neck, pursued by a small boy with an armful of American flags...
With General Cohen there also deserted to the new Canton Government last week Ace Bert Hall of Bowling Green, Ky. In 1913 Aviator Hall and his mechanic were Turkey's two-man air force in the Balkan War. When the World War broke Aviator Hall was in Paris, joined the Foreign Legion, left it later to help found the famed Lafayette Escadrille. He shot down nine German planes, was decorated seven times by Allied Governments. Aged 50 he is still spoiling for fights, picks plenty in China, where he is "General Chan...