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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Tuan reached Nanking he professed hostility to Japan (a necessary profession with Chinese public opinion at fury heat as it was last week), then went into a huddle with China's Generalissimo. Marshal Chiang Kaishek. A few hours later Peiping's "Young Marshal" flew down in his sumptuous private plane to Nanking, joined the huddle. If Tuan actually carried an offer from Japan- presumably an offer of peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME...
...duty at Selfridge Field, Mich, in 1927 he landed a new-type pursuit plane which he was testing, got out, left the engine running. A brother officer took it up. Hardly had the ship gained altitude when it burst into flame. The officer died. A year later Lieut. Woodring flew with the First Pursuit Group on a goodwill tour of Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First he saw Musketeer "Willie" Williams land...
...when he was barely 18, Smith Reynolds married Anne Cannon, daughter of a Concord, N. C. textile tycoon. In August 1930, they had a daughter. A year later young Smith Reynolds, who had studied aviation instead of going to college, flew his wife to Reno for her divorce...
...Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen, had thought up the idea. The U. S. Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders to the 125 it has already placed in remote New Jersey swamps and forests...
Having lived chiefly in France since 1890, he sailed at last in December 1928, for Brazil. His return was an heroic but tragic event. The official plane Alberto Santos-Dumont flew forth to greet the hero apropos, fell into a tailspin, drowned all 14 greeters. Alberto Santos-Dumont never recovered from the shock...