Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon he broke two sticks. One, during the Beethoven Ninth, third movement, flew into the audience and was recovered after a mild scramble by a lady who put it in her handbag. The other splintered during the Strauss tone poem, Ein Heldenlebcn, the section labeled "The Hero's Battlefield." The butt-end of this was captured by Warren Mayo, president of U. of M.'s varsity glee club. Mayo took it to Stock's dressing room after the performance, and the master good-naturedly inscribed his initials upon...
...long distance from Chicago one Ivan D. Spears, promoter, arranged a rendezvous with Papa Dionne about exhibiting the quintuplets at the Century of Progress. Promoter Spears flew to Orillia, Ont. Papa Dionne motored there with Father Routhier in the Parishhouse Ford. The offer: $100 per week as an option until the quintuplets can be put on show. Thereafter 30% of the gross side show receipts go to the Dionnes, another 7% to Father Routhier. But Dr. Dafoe objected: "They are not going to be moved from here...
...Langley Field, Va. from Newark one day last week flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from...
...every three. For flying more than half the domestic airmail it received one-third of all mail payments ($5,313, 000). and its manufacturing subsidiaries got about one-third ($5,623,000) of all Army & Navy aircraft expenditures. Over its 6,440 mi. of airways its planes flew more than a million miles a month-more than any other airline in the U. S. At cancellation it had flown 65,000,000 mi., was flying nearly half the passenger-miles of the whole U. S. air transport system...
Last week a supercharged 800-h.p. Hornet motor flew from Detroit to New York (550 mi.) in 1 hr.. 47 min.. 21 sec., averaging 308.4 m.p.h. or more than five miles a minute. Tacked to it was a tiny fuselage just big enough to hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...