Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need to tell her audience what all the world knew-that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...
...Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water...
Thursday, after meeting her son James & wife as they got back from Europe, she flew to Baltimore. A White House car picked her up, sped her to Washington where at 4:30 she spoke to 350 women members of Washington's community chest drive. Singer Grace Moore was the White House tea guest...
Friday morning she flew to Richmond, Va. to address a child welfare conference, attended a children's concert, visited a day nursery. She flew back to Washington in time to open a flower show...
...flying boat was a twin-motored Dornier Wal* named Monsoon, of the type which Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau thrice flew from Germany to the U. S. Carrying a crew of four and a Luft Hansa director, the Monsoon flew up from British Gambia, headed west by south, caught the radio beacon of the Westphalen. Smack on her course after six hours the Monsoon picked up the floating airdrome in the middle of the Atlantic. Unlike an aircraft carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance...