Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Secretary of Commerce Roper and NRAdministrator Johnson have arisen differences (both of principle and personality). They took visible form last week in the Swope Plan for putting NRA more under civilian control (see p. 10). As General Johnson flew West on an inspection and explanation tour. Washington talked again about his soon resigning...
...Governors had no better plan. They lopped off Reno's last three proposals, got him to declare a truce in the farm strike. Then Governors Olson and Schmedeman entrained for Washington. Their colleagues later flew in the same direction...
Three or four years ago when every long-distance flight or airline merger made front page news, the public was well aware of the name of Fairchild. Besides being the name of the world's most famed aerial camera, it denoted a good airplane. Fairchild cabin jobs flew mail & passengers, flew prospectors to Canadian gold fields, news photographers to disaster scenes. Like nearly everything else in aviation Fairchild had its slump. As a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. it lost $2,100,000 in 1929, $870,000 in 1930. Next year Sherman Mills Fairchild, its shrewd young president, pulled...
...weather threatened. While most Chicagoans lay abed-before 7 a. m.-the ship slipped into Curtiss-Reynolds Airport where a ground crew of 250 soldiers hauled her to earth. She stayed long enough for a reception committee to escort Dr. Eckener ashore, cast off 25 minutes later, flew over the Fair on her way back to Akron...
...difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters prove the public demand by selling 1,000 tickets in advance. No tickets, no airline. Last week the 1,000th ticket was sold, airplanes flew between Boston, Concord, White River, Vt., Montpelier and Barre...