Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest and fastest airplane in regular over-water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...
With the San Francisco general strike out of the way, the National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna last week got down to its original business?settling the Longshoremen's strike. Its emissaries flew packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...
...African jungle to Cairo, on a bed, in an airplane, flew Mrs. Martin Johnson, ill after 20 months spent filming big game...
Last year a plump-faced Briton flew from London to India. He was Maurice Wilson, 37, son of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer, Wartime infantry captain, holder of the Military Cross. He wanted to land his plane on East Rongbuk glacier (see map try to reach Everest's top from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers...
While the Ruttledge expedition was struggling on the north face of Everest, the Marquess of Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant D. F. Mclntyre took off in specially built planes with supercharged motors from Purnea, near the Nepal border, and flew a scant 100 ft. over the mountain from the south. In three hours they were back in Purnea (TIME, April...