Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force consisted largely of a formidable collection of antiquated fighting planes - old Breguets, built in 1921, a Dewoitine, a Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were...
...embodying severe criticisms of Comintern policy and tactics in Man's Fate and championing Trotsky, he swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said was the ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, but about which experts were noncommittal. A natural scholar, Malraux knows Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, as well as Sanskrit, Chinese and minor Oriental tongues, was working...
...bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters in the interior, Mme. Chiang flew to Chengtu, northwest of Chungking...
...United Air Lines and Bell Telephone Laboratories also were at work on safety. One afternoon last week United Air Lines' flying laboratory, went up from Newark Airport carrying a new type of altimeter mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other...
Most dramatic game of the series was the second, in which Cub Pitcher Dizzy Dean's famed $185,000 sore arm fooled the Yankees for seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats...