Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because college presidents are public figures, not likely to be permitted obscurity, rumors flew to the effect that he would be nominated to, and accept, the Republican candidacy for Governor of New Jersey in the Spring. Therefore his past was scanned for its high spots. They are: born at Peoria, Ill., April 19, 1861; educated at Princeton and Berlin; served as Presbyterian minister at Chambersburg, Pa. (1887-91), then as instructor of logic, and later of psychology, at Princeton; author of several philosophical works...
Through floating clouds, dimly illumined by the full moon which General Balbo had awaited, the formation flew south and west across the narrowest neck (1,860 mi.) of the South Atlantic, checking their course by radio with the seven Italian cruisers strung along the route
Into Guatemala City last week flew U. S. Minister Sheldon Whitehouse...
Coyote. Flying low over a South Dakota prairie with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
Right after the War, Coste flew for Air Union as a $25-per-week pilot on the new London-Paris route. His famed flying companion, Maurice Bellonte, was his navigator and radioman in that service. For all the talk of "millions" in store for them, Coste & Bellonte together realized no more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into...