Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott, whose father as president of Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before joining Colonial Airways in 1926 to help pioneer the first mail and passenger service...
...late Carl Ben Eielson (who crashed to death a year ago in the service of Alaskan Airways) made news: Pilot Frank Dorbandt circled low over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...
...flew the machine here from Kansas are T. B. Eastland '33, and Robert Gilmore '31, who made the trip out there as guests of the Transcontinental and Western Air Company. On the return trip, which took six days, they were marooned two days at Cleveland, and one day at Indianapolis. The route taken after arriving at Cleveland, was the same as that used by the Chicago-New York airmail lines...
From Croydon last week flew the first plane of the new London-Africa weekly service which now runs to Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria, and which is soon to be extended to Cape Town. With a change to flying boat at Athens, mail and passengers should reach Mwanza in nine days-a 32-day journey by steamer and train...
...Last week Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks flew it in 55 min., a record. Fastest train time is made by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's Yankee Clipper. 4 hr. 45 min.; fare $12.26. Other crack trains: Knickerbocker Limited, Merchants Limited; Pennsylvania Railroad's Senator, Colonial express...