Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaza, meanwhile, were congregated some 1,600 "hunger marchers" who had trucked into the capital from the North and Mid-West by Communist leaders for demonstration purposes (TIME, Dec. 7). These tatterdemalions, a forlorn, hollow-eyed crew of whites and blacks, paraded under police escort singing...
...Hudson River Boat on the way to West Point, one letter at a time due to the limited space. The large drum, which measures over six feet in diameter, probably had the distinction of being the first instrument from a college band to have an army escort, when it was carried down from the stadium at West Point to the boat by two squads of adepts...
...Brock's 730th. On Nov. 15, 1929, Dr. John David Brock, Kansas City optician, observed in his logbook that he had missed flying on only eleven days that year. For the fun of it he decided to try flying every day. Last week, with an escort including nine Army planes, John Kerr "Tex" LaGrone, who taught him to fly in 1922, and Mrs. Brock, Dr. Brock took off from Fairfax Airport for his 73Oth consecutive daily flight, a two-year record of flying in all kinds of weather. Sometimes his would be the only plane to leave the ground...
Next morning Marjorie was gasping for breath. A doctor boarded the train at Richmond, gave her little more than an hour to live. Father Cohen wired for an airplane at Washington. An ambulance & motorcycle escort met the train at Union Station, rushed through the city to the airport. Pilot V. J. Lucas had a plane warmed up. He took off, opened the throttle, headed for Camden Airport. Sixty-two minutes later he landed dangerously in a headwind. Still breathing, Marjorie was carried by ambulance to Jefferson Hospital. Surgeons were ready. An hour later the bean was removed. Father Cohen...
...arrived for them and their violent hopes sank. " Back in Nanking, the Colonel took counsel, announced that he would attempt no more succor flights. "I am convinced," said he, "that the only way to place doctors in the flooded towns would be to send them with a military escort." Later Col onel & Mrs. Lindbergh said they would make further "survey flights," would carry a League of Nations observer over China's flooded flats...