Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
...showy conference of generals in Berlin, and Italian Chief of Staff Alberto Pariani and German Commander-in-Chief of the Army General Walther von Brauchitsch set to work forming an Italian-German supreme military council. Later, Colonel General Erhard Milch, Chief of Staff of the German Air Force, flew to Rome to unify the two countries' air forces...
Early Days. In the early, rough-&-tumble days of flying Glenn Martin was an incongruous figure. Solemn as a preacher, he dressed in black with a tall white collar, wore a businesslike helmet when he flew. Other pinfeather fliers, who turned their checkered caps backward when they climbed into their planes, called him "The Dude...
...while most of the other fliers just flew, Glenn Martin barnstormed to find out how to make better flying machines. Almost as soon as he learned to fly he began manufacturing planes in Santa Ana. He opened a factory in Los Angeles in 1912, from which he sold planes to the U. S. Army, still one of his best customers. For seven years, sobersided Martin, half pilot, half industrialist, whizzed around the country, flying to finance manufacturing...
...repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back and hovered around Aubignane, then flew off towards the plains. After that the sun came out and, like a mouth, breathed warmth...