Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Washington flew Inspector Hugh H. Clegg to direct the hunt of thousands of Federal, State and local officers for the only man who had ever lived to kill more than one Department of Justice agent. Early next morning the dead agents' automobile was found abandoned in suburban Winnetka. The front seat was caked with blood. Soon after in Niles Center a bundle of blood-soaked men's clothes was picked...
...over Florida's Biscayne Bay one day last week flew an airplane towing two gliders. In one was Sportsman Pilot Harold Bowen, in the other Warren Edwin Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), co-holder of the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute...
...sang in a cabaret, shared a room with a fanatic Socialist, picked up geography, table manners and general intelligence from the quickening Parisian atmosphere. Her affair with a handsome French nobleman was purely platonic until he went to the front; then she discovered she was no platonist. She flew to his side as he lay wounded in a hospital, but Mata Hari was there before...
...With Captain P. G. ("Bill") Taylor as navigator, Kingsford-Smith flew unerringly 1,700 mi. over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most...
Last year he won the Bendix Trophy-New York to Los Angeles- in 11 hr. 30 min., topped that transcontinental record with another in the opposite direction, in 10 hr. 4 min. Last month he beat that record by two minutes, flew back to Cleveland to win the Thompson Trophy, World's No. 1 closed-course race (100 mi. at 248 m.p.h.). A temperamental prima donna on the ground. Turner is a cold, nerveless machine...