Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wore on news flew by word of mouth around Moscow that one could see the Dictator's wife, that she was dead. By evening a curious Muscovite queue waited four abreast for their turn...
...Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church in theology. To the U. S. the Lord Bishop brought his tall, weathered wife, Lady William (Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham) Cecil. They toured New England, visited Philadelphia and Princeton, flew to Richmond. In Chicago last fortnight the Bishop of Exeter addressed the Sunday Evening Club on peace, the subject which-with disarmament, cancellation, hands-across-the-sea- he has been preaching everywhere. Then he returned to Manhattan, where earlier he had been seen, gaitered and shovel-hatted, walking on Fifth Avenue...
...hope. We can and will bring to the problem of the individual the maturity of a united effort of a nation come of age. America, mature in its powers, united in its purpose, high in its faith can come and will come to better days." Since he flew to Chicago in early July to accept the nomination, Governor Roosevelt has stumped 17,000 miles-a record. His campaign was spirited, ingratiating, comparatively decent and free from bad errors on which G. 0. Partisans waited in vain to pounce. He had been careful not to promise too much. His travels...
...line is an outgrowth of the old Transcontinental Air Transport, over which Col. Lindbergh flew the first 48 hr. air-&-rail trip three years ago. Last year it began to operate an all-air service for passengers, but included an overnight stop in Kansas City. It took 36 hours. The new Comet schedule was made possible by perfecting night-flying facilities...
...typical training procedure: at Newark Airport small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take...