Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year has cast several shadows on the fame of Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whom no less an authority than War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker calls the "best transport pilot in the U. S." Last summer Dick Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain...
Last night there was a minor assemblage in the Square, quickly dispersed by the Aptedmen. Rumors flew thick and fast about the number of Cambridge police waiting with everything from laughing gas, to siege guns and field pieces, but nothing was in evidence...
Through these strong-arm tactics, one student came very near to losing an eye through the firing of a tear gas bomb, as the little wax pellet flew out and hit him in the cyclid. This would never have happened, if the mob had been slowly but surely dealt with by proctors and Yard Cops who could have confiscated bursars cards, and broken the affair up in the same manner in which it had been started; namely in the spirit of good fun and lack of venomous malice. The Cambridge police bungled the thing, and they must stand responsible...
...Time flew, and the world became wider and crueler. Over a bottle of cheap ale Griffin sat with a mawkish tramp...
...frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death in a Fokker transport in 1931 banished Fokker planes from U. S. skies. With Fokker and his plant gone, Teterboro sank into obscurity...