Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordained a Baptist minister in 1901, fought on the Italian front in the World War, was the American Legion's chaplain in 1923-24. As head of the National Guard, he supervised 51 state and territorial organizations.* During his two years in office. Major General Everson flew more than 100,000 mi. throughout the land, earned the name of Flying Parson. He had held pastorates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky...
Filipino politicos like to talk a lot. Faced by a man who says little, goes about patiently asking questions and scrupulously keeping his counsel, politicos are likely to become nervous and uneasy. Wherever Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley flew during the past three weeks in his effort to bring back to President Hoover the insular attitude toward independence, the wash of his plane's propeller, the dust kicked up by his horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker...
...Jersey one day last week, just after Pilot Albert Vale and his wife had taken off from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash...
...September 23, 1911 at an aviation meet near Garden City, L. I., Earle Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think...
...astonishment of most observers Don Moyle and Cecil Allen were heard from last week, nine days after they took off from Japan for Seattle (TIME, Sept. 21). They turned up at Miano Pilgino, a tiny village on the coast of Kamchatka, Siberia later flew on to Nome. Because of the text of Movie's first radio message to his fiancée, saying "have Frank put publicity man on job," the flyers' backers were obliged to make heated denials that the plane's disappearance was a hoax...