Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his mobilization machine in good order, Louis Johnson this week flew toward Alaska. He is to look over the route of a proposed 2,338-mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...
When U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, an ace career diplomat, suddenly flew to Prague on what he carefully described as "just a holiday visit" to his friend U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia Wilbur J. Carr, Czechs were delighted...
...captain can legally perform wedding ceremonies outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
Through his publicity agent, Bernarr Macfadden, 70, let it be known he had bought from Flier Jacqueline Cochran Odium a low-wing Northrop "Gamma" monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept...
...only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...