Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourth day. Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...
Eighth Day. Two dusty and unshaven men crawled from the cabin of the Pride of Detroit after she was wheeled into a hangar at the British Air Service Field at Karachi, India. They were greeted by a Sunday crowd; British officers; the American Consul. They reported the Pride functioning flawlessly, despite the heat...
...larger cities on the itinerary: Detroit, Milwaukee, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Toledo, Youngstown, Columbus, Minneapolis, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, Birmingham, Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga...