Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...
...Last year the Navy's 308 ships were manned by 84,000 enlisted men, 8,905 officers. Of these 10,771 flew and tended 281 Navy aircraft. Said Secretary Adams: "The quality and efficiency of the enlisted personnel have never been better...
About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon-Grundy-Fisher machine before I shall vote for him to be seated. We cannot damn one ill-smelling Pennsylvania machine without damning the other...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they...
...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...