Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safe as a county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
After twelve days of fierce fighting Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "win-the-war" offensive against Catalonia temporarily slowed down last week. At week's end the red-&-gold Insurgent flag flew over two sizable new bulges of terri tory totaling about 750 square miles. If Insurgent troops pierce another 16 miles into Catalonia to take Artesa, then Barce lona, the Loyalist capital, will be seriously threatened...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
...Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody...