Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden on September 15. Next day, Mediator Chamberlain and ex-Mediator Runciman, starting respectively from Berchtesgaden and from Prague, flew back to London where they arrived within a few minutes of each other. They promptly conferred at No. 10 Downing Street. Events then moved so swiftly that by September 19 the capitulation of Prague had already been demanded by Britain and France, but it took methodical Lord Runciman until September 21 to write his report. Excerpts...
...Gravelly Point has been that air activity there might conflict with traffic at the Army's Boiling Field, just across the river. That was ironed out, too, by a plan for a central control tower submitted by Major General Oscar Westover, Army Air Corps chief, just before he flew off to die in a crash at Burbank, Calif., last month...
...South (Sewanee), he spent a year at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, then, ten years ago, learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling up flying hours and getting a comprehensive view of private flying such as few short-hop and Sunday fliers get. Sometimes selling several ships a month, but more often finding territories soured on flying because of local accidents...
...devastated East picked itself up, dried itself off, began burying its dead, Harry Hopkins flew to join the six New England Governors in Boston. To $500,000 from the Red Cross he added the promise of "unlimited funds" and 100,000 workers from WPA. Disaster Loan Corp. (subsidiary of RFC) offered rehabilitation loans. After five days, some communities were still isolated, train service had not been restored on the full New York-to-Boston run, the known dead had passed 600, the estimated damage half a billion dollars...
Promptly Bride Pons Benedict Kostel-anelz flew lo South America. She made a six-week concert tour, he surveyed South American radio. Last week, Andre Kostel-anelz gave CBS his report on the honeymoon survey, incidentally upsetting popular ideas of the nature of Latin American radio listening...