Word: condore
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...they saw what they had come to see-a monstrous black bird soaring far overhead, its white underwings flashing in the sun. In the same desolate spot they might have seen an identical sight 1,000,000 years ago. It was that Pleistocene survival, the giant California condor, one of the biggest birds alive...
World's first aerial sleeper service was started in the autumn of 1933 by Eastern Air Transport with an 18-passenger two-berth Curtiss Condor on the Newark-Atlanta run (TIME, Oct. 15, 1933). Only other U. S. airline to try the service since has been American, which started it with Condors between Los Angeles and Dallas in April 1934, found it popular (TIME, July 16, 1934). This service, no longer necessary, was discontinued last week. Other long-run airlines will probably put on service like American's new one as soon as their Douglas...
...those huts was being used as a hospital by Swedish missionaries,* and in it at the time of the raid was a U. S. Negro aviator from Chicago, John Robinson, known to correspondents as "The Brown Condor of Ethiopia." Condor Robinson's task was to ferry dispatches from Addis Ababa to provincial Ethiopian commanders in an ancient monoplane. Back in Addis Ababa last week he was able to give foreign correspondents an accurate description of the first casualties of the war. Said...
...which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark and Buffalo...
Last week American Airlines, opening its new 16-hour southern transcontinental route with Douglases by day, Condor sleeper-planes by night, announced that the first westbound ship would be christened The Southerner by Miss Anne Laxton of Knoxville, "a descendant of the late General Stonewall Jackson." In addition, Cinemactress Carole Lombard was to be on hand as a passenger. But Miss Lombard took a TWA plane instead, as did La Motte Cohu, onetime president of American Airways. Gary Cooper also failed to appear. Among those who did appear were Wallace Beery, Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Texas Publisher Amon...