Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alcock, Brown, Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine, Byrd, Balchen, Noville, Acosta, Fitzmaurice, Koehl, von Hunefeld...
...Harry F. Byrd, governor of Virginia, telephoned from the capitol at Richmond to Paris for the purpose of telling Julian Green that his novel, The Closed Garden, was great and to invite him to return to Richmond as guest of the Byrds. Novelist Green, Virginia native, does his writing in France...
...Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth of Mrs. Frederick Guest (TIME, June 11), but Miss Boll's sponsor is Charles A. Levine, of uncertain reliability. Lady Lindy knows she wants to fly to England, while the Queen of Diamonds would fly anywhere if she could...
Soon after 5 o'clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly...
South. An organization called Byrd Aviation Associates was formed last week to give "moral and material support" to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to the Antarctic, scheduled for September. Charles Evans Hughes is chairman; Edsel Ford treasurer...