Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubs and societies, joined the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in 1930, the American Philatelic Society and the Academic Diplomatique Internationale in 1931, etc. etc., the Maccabees last week. ¶ How, after winning the nomination last July on the fourth ballot, he dramatically flew to Chicago to address the convention. ¶ How he campaigned 12,000 mi. during September and October. ¶ How he was elected Nov. 8 by 22,813,786 votes to Hoover...
Thus far relations between "Lion" Alessandri and such grumbling but resigned U. S. corporations as Cosach have been notably smoothed by U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson who lately flew from Santiago to Washington to give the State Department pointers on the incoming Chilean regime. In Santiago, to which Mr. Culbertson will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown...
...night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead man. All airplane manufacturers were asked to plaque Santos-Dumont's likeness on all new planes. The Brazilian Aero League asked pilots the world over to wear crepe on their...
Most transport planes on U. S. airlines accommodate twelve passengers. In the past year such planes flew each trip with an average of seven seats empty, according to figures published last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department's analysis was begun October 1931, showed an average of 39% seat-occupancy for that month. The average dipped to 28% for the bad-weather month of December, climbed steadily to a 53% peak last August, dropped to 43% in October. Average for 13 months...
...pilots flew and guarded the mail last year at a slightly greater cost of life than before. In fiscal 1931-32, 14 pilots met death in 32,200,000 mi. of flight, an average of one fatality for each 2,300,000 mi. flown. In the previous year there were eight deaths...