Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think about all lights were suddenly switched out in the main section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...
...Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers' neighbors. Mr. Luer, a banker, packer and Alton's first citizen, offered to telephone the neighbor. His slippers flew off as his captors seized and dragged him to a waiting automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came...
...find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission...
...bought Hiram Walker last year at $2 a share and sold last week at $56; of how you could have bought National Distillers last spring for $17 and sold it last week for $117; of how Canadian Industrial Alcohol jumped from $2.50 to $24. These were facts. But thicker flew the rumors of how this company or that planned to enter the whiskey business, reap fat profits from the fact that Americans are proverbially a whiskey-drinking people. And the stockmarket soared to New Deal highs. Standard Brands lately announced that it might make...
...soldier. The soldier twitched his fingers. His fingers jerked the trigger of a machine gun. B-B-R-R-R-AM ! A dozen bullets whizzed post King Carol's nose. In Rochester. Minn, four surgeons from famed Mayo clinic boarded a chartered plane shortly before 8 p. m., flew 500 miles to Detroit, motored 51 more miles to Chatham, Ont. behind a police escort, arrived at 1 a. m. Then they performed an emergency abdominal operation on Mrs. Fred M. Zeder, wife of Chrysler Corp.'s famed chief engineer. In a stateroom of the Santa Fe Chief...