Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Falke and a lifeboat crew to row ashore with more guns, more ammunition. On the beach the third officer was killed. Killed too was General Chalbaud, leader of the rebels, and General Emilio Fernandez, defender of Cumana. Minor generals on both sides strewed the sand. When a government airplane flew overhead, raking the landing party of filibustered with machine gun fire and dropping bombs, General Chalbaud's surviving son and followers climbed back aboard the Falke, fled from Cumana as fast as leaking engines would drive...
...Bold Scot MacDonald who suddenly changed front, last week, ordered an airplane and flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...
...breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...
Land of the Soviets. A bimotored all-metal monoplane, Land of the Soviets', flew eastward from Moscow last week to circumnavigate the earth in 40 days. Her crew of five expected to cross Siberia, the northern Pacific along the Aleutian Islands, south to San Francisco, across the U. S. to New York, to Europe via the North Atlantic...
...that at present there seems to be no American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days...