Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pursuit Squadron, commanded by Lieut. Irving Woodring, last of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers." Time and again the 18 Boeings roared down from the sky to smite the bombers. Heartened by the armada's proud showing the commanding officers determined to try another demonstration over Manhattan en route to Washington, should the weather there turn fair. In any event, Assistant Secretary Davison could point with pride to the Army's getting its 672 planes across the mountains and up the coast without losing a man or machine. With ten days more for mobilization to continue, caution...
Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...
...Kidnapped 85 miles from Foochow, in Fukien Province, last week while en route to consecrate a new church were aged and ailing Bishop Manuel Prat and Father Alfonso Andres, Spanish Dominicans. "We very much doubt," said a Spanish mission spokesman, "whether our beloved Bishop can possibly survive the rigors of captivity...
Early one morning last week about 400 stockholders of Bethlehem Steel Corp. were en route to Newark, N. J., where the annual meeting was scheduled. Few would have thought of going had not it been known that at this meeting the management would ask for approval of a resolution upholding the much-argued Bethlehem bonus plan, that a minority interest might protest, ask pertinent questions. Yet that very morning Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes had signed an order which made much of the meeting meaningless. He ruled that while the stockholders might vote, the result of the vote might...
...Union League Club, composed of Philadelphia's most elegant gentlemen, raised its eyebrows sharply. The artist was punctiliously paid $400, but Mr. Hayes en chemise was rejected. He has never reappeared...