Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many cities to show U. S. civilians and taxpayers what their nation's wings look like and how they can fly. The length of the Pacific Coast, civilians were organized into a "listening network" to detect the approach of "enemy" planes which defenders from March and Hamilton fields flew up to "intercept...
...delivered, hurtled from Burbank, Calif, to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (2,450 miles) in 9 hr. 14 min. 30 sec., at average speed of 259.398 m.p.h., only two hours slower than the transcontinental record made by Howard Hughes in a racing plane. Finally, a Grumman amphibian flew 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) at 186.094 m.p.h., bettering Italy's world record of 159.8 m.p.h...
...fireflyless home town. But they all died on the way or shortly after arrival. Concluding that adult insects could not be colonized,* Mary Ellen arranged to have 600 larvae shipped to Seattle, to mature after reaching there. It was from these larvae that the 200 first-hatched insects flew out of their box in the arboretum last week...
Last week celebrations all over Spain reminded Spaniards that three years had passed since General Franco flew from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Civil War. The anniversary of the revolt was a bright, cool day that ended a heat wave. At the lunch hour, factory workers listened to the reading of decrees announcing a "fiesta for the exaltation of labor" and promising wages high enough to give the "humble classes" access to culture. All over Spain there were prayers and parades, masses and mass meetings, chants and cheers for Francisco Franco; all over Spain there were uniforms...
...shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse and his talent with open admiration; celebrities from far and near beat a path to his door...