Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for the Japanese, Dr. Sun did not fly in Pilot Woods's plane. Instead he shifted his reservation to Eurasia Aviation Corp. (45% German-owned) and flew in safety to Hankow, the Chinese capital against which Japan's forces uneventfully continued their offensive (TIME...
...Shanghai was asked by correspondents what transport planes in China could do to keep from being "mistakenly attacked" in future. Said he sagely: "The best thing they can do is not to be in the air!" Later the spokesman gave the part-German Eurasia line on which Dr. Sun flew safely last week priceless advertising by implying that its planes will continue immune. At once China National Aviation Corp. canceled all flights. Its officials said it might resume business with departures at "secret hours" if customers wanted to buy tickets on that basis...
...soon evident that the political pot was boiling. After a two-hour conference Lord Runciman's chief aide, Mr. Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin flew to London to confer with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax. He was sa: to have reported: 1) that Führer Henlin was virtually a "straw man," repeatedly refusing to commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann...
...Moscow for the Soviet's annual air show flew Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...flying priest, this was almost a routine appeal. But it was not so routine that Father Schulte, as he flew north with his mechanic, Brother Beaudoin, omitted to inform the New York Times about his activities. Father Schulte dashed 360 miles to Chesterfield Inlet, found the only doctor ill, pushed on, was forced down by fog at Igloolik, reached Baffin Land to find Father Cochard still living, bundled him into the plane. Reported Father Schulte to the Times, after he got his colleague safely to a hospital in Chesterfield Inlet: "Father Cochard was not troubled with airsickness and was very...