Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world-fliers are not the cheery men who landed gaily in Croydon, London's airport, and adjourned merrily for refreshments of a pre-prohibition character. They are tired-out and nervous. The last few flights seemed to have worn them down more than the previous 18,000 miles. Certain differences of temperament and opinion have brought sharp criticism and retort from formerly friendly lips. And the uncertainty as to further advance is harrowing. Also they are broke. The Government allowed them $8-a-day expenses on the world flight and they will have to account for every dollar...
...many hours later they were off again-for Croydon Field, near London, and their trans-Atlantic hop home...
Night flying is also being prepared for between London and Paris. The trail from the London Terminus at Croydon to Lympe, where the airplanes set out across the narrow English Channel, is already a fair blaze of light. It has been named "the Regent Street of the Continental Airways." The Londoner will avoid his early closing hours by flying to Paris, doing a heavy round of Montmartre and still return early enough to rest up before his office in the morning...
...school in Croydon (London), where teachers are striking against a 5% reduction in salary, the pupils declined to be taught by substitutes. The boys met one of these temporary masters in class with cries of" Blackleg!" When the master threatened to cane one boy, the whole class rushed him and he was forced to beat a hasty retreat. Jubilant over their victory, the boys then indulged in an orgy of "crashing" windows and desks, carrying their celebrations out into the yard. They were finally quelled by the police. The strike is said to be the first of its kind...