Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...
From New York toward Barrington, Ill., to visit his mother & stepfather (Mrs. Fifi Stillman McCormick & Fowler McCormick) flew Alexander Stillman, 20, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman, in his own airplane. Near Gary, Ind. he cracked up, was taken to a hospital. Flying to his bedside that night in a chartered plane Mr. & Mrs. McCormick cracked up, were not hurt...
...world record seemed to be within U. S. grasp. Walter Snell of Providence, R. I. flew a one-kilometre course at 38.7 m. p. h. Existing world record: Germany...
...funeral last week flew Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene, no vender of Bat'a shoes. Mr. Filene was at Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia when he heard the news...
Most impressive flights of the first week were made in one day by O'Meara and Martin Schempp of Pittsburgh. Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford...