Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated...
...news when Kermit Roosevelt and John Sargent, the insurance partner of James Roosevelt, took seats on the Tack board. It was news last week when the Tack directors voted to split the stock three-for-one. Next day Tack stock tumbled from $34.75 a share to $21. Rumors flew thick that the Tack pool had been punctured. It had-but not the way Wall Street suspected. The New York State Attorney General curtly announced that he had been investigating Tack's amazing rise from a low of $1.50 a share early in the year to last week...
Gene Vidal as Director of Aeronautics flew to Warm Springs last fortnight to show President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...
...absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt at the swank River Club in Manhattan, talked aviation with him. One day last January he, Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal spent three days there, informally expounding his views on aviation to the President-Elect. If Mr. Roosevelt was not impressed by his guest's business record, he could not help being impressed by his first-hand knowledge of the industry, his experience with airline extravagances...
Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...