Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
...feat threw into relief a curious combination of facts: Nine years ago the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes was won at 177 m.p.h. That year Capt. "Al" Williams flew a landplane 266 m.p.h. and the next year a Frenchman flew one 278 m.p.h. The Frenchman's speed remained the world record until last week when it was bettered by only 18 m.p.h. Meanwhile, since 1923, seaplane speeds have been upped 40, 50, 60 m.p.h. from year to year. Last year Britain's Lieut. Stainforth flew 406 m.p.h...
Women pilots had fought bitterly and won the right to enter every race this year except the Thompson Trophy. Having the privilege, they did nothing with it, flew in no events until the Amelia Earhart Trophy Race for the George Palmer Putnam Cup, for women exclusively, was reached. This race aroused much mirth among men pilots, caused much confusion to officials. The six starters were supposed to race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks...
Later, however, more seasoned women pilots flew an admirable race in a driving storm for the Aerol Trophy. Rain & darkness blinded them so they could not see the flags on the pylons signalling them down. Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, in the cockpit of pugnacious "Benny" Howard's little racer Ike, won at 185 m.p.h. Next day Mrs. Mae Haizlip, wife of "Jimmy" Haizlip, in her husband's ship, flashed past the timing cameras at 255 m.p.h., 45 m.p.h. faster than the women's record, just as fast as Doolittle in the Thompson race...
...Gosh." Clyde Allen Lee, 24, a lank youth of Oshkosh, Wis., solicited a few hundred dollars from local merchants to help him fly his Stinson monoplane, with Oshkosh B'Gosh painted on its fuselage, nonstop to Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport...