Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Purple Pansies." At 3 a. m. one day last week at Lindbergh Field, San Diego, Pilot Ruth Blaney Alexander joked with reporters before starting on a one-stop speed flight to New York. Said she, "If I crack up, send me purple pansies; I like them best"?and took off into the swirling fog from the Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months...
...substantial duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
Died. Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, 62, Vice Admiral commanding the U. S. scouting fleet, Spanish and World War veteran; of lung congestion following pneumonia; in San Diego, Calif...
Would not the soup, or its equivalent, have had a tendency to stimulate a respect for and interest in the senders and their Bibles? At the same time creating a market for our big surplus of food supplies, incidentally benefiting our farmers? F. J. MARTIN San Diego, Calif...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...