Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broker Stetson stayed with his father's venerable firm for only a few years after he was graduated from Harvard in 1906. South American archeology and ethnology interested him much more than hats. At the start of the War he jumped into aviation, flew for a year in France. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him Minister to Poland. After he resigned in 1930, he formed a brokerage firm with a Philadelphia banker, Daniel S. Blackman. Broker Stetson, who was reported to have put up the capital, became the floor member. Last week although receivers listed Stetson & Blackman...
Critic Simmonds was correct about the feelings of oldtime pilots. In the old days of temperamental engines a good pilot always glided in, a poor pilot flew in. But that criterion has been outmoded by multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over...
...narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...
...backer. Like Gar Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England...
Another kind of pilot was at the controls of a blazing plane over France one night last week, on the regular Paris-Marseilles mail run. The wireless operator went over the side but the pilot pumped his extinguisher until he had put out the fire. Then he flew on to Lyons; the wireless operator caught up by train...