Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Wilmer Stultz, 29, of Nassau, L. I., trans-Atlantic air pilot (the Friendship, with Amelia Earhart, June, 1928); at Roosevelt Field, L. I., while stunting with two friends...
...week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash...
From Roosevelt Field, L. I., Captain Frank Monroe Hawks of the Texas Co. flew a Lockheed-Vega to Los Angeles in 19 hrs. 10 min. 32 sec. He rested awhile and returned to Roosevelt Field in the fastest transcontinental time?17 hrs.. 38 min., 16 sec. Total flying time for the round trip: 36 hrs., 48 min., 48 sec. Said he: "I do not think a transcontinental flight need be a non-stop affair. This, too, is still impractical and must be classed as a stunt. . . . Frankly, the only reason I made non-stop flights was to draw closer...
...their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?at Christmastime in 1934. Thereafter, they guessed, they would have "the largest magazine circulation in the world...
...then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette, he pulls out a pair of field-glasses and returns the stare. This somehow gets him acclaimed hero by the crowd. In the Roof Garden he is about to further prove his heroism by ascending in a balloon as escort of Cinemactress Romerantz. Miss Romerantz, however, cancels the ascent since, due to a sudden newspaper strike...