Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Thaddeus Campbell Sweet of New York telephoned Bolling Field one afternoon last week and asked Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin, U. S. A., to fly him to Oswego, N. Y., where he was to make a speech. Such calls from Congressmen are encouraged by the War and Navy Departments. Lieut. Hoppin did not get the Representative's name very clearly but proceeded at once with preparations. They took off after breakfast next morning, in a new Army observation plane. By late-luncheon time, the plane was a wreck and Representative Sweet was dead...
Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
While the Virginia capes were being defended, bevies of airplanes swooped and wheeled over Langley Field, Va., to demonstrate how they would treat an infantry regiment and wagon train should they have been landed by an invader. The Army Air Corps' high command issued winged invitations to the press and all flew out from Bolling field to see the show...
...plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry...
...vital importance of Afghanistan in three respects. First, as a militant and independent power, dominating the junction of important Asiatic trade routes. Second, as a nation without railways, which thus interrupts the bands of steel which would otherwise stretch from Europe to India. And third, as an undeveloped virgin field for commercial expansion...