Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
...Flint at week's end, violence broke out at Chevrolet's plant No. 9 when a group of unionists approached the plant manager, demanded recognition. Company guards leaped to the manager's defense, fists flew, shots were fired, 15 were injured. A crowd of men forced their way into plant No. 4 and "sat down," subsequently engaging in a fire-hose battle with non-union workmen. Thereupon, under orders from Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away...
...Finished the important business of making committee assignments. The "Third Party Bloc," consisting this year of seven Progressives from Wisconsin, one from California and five Farmer-Laborites from Minnesota, flew into a rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other Democrats at the tail end of the Majority's assignment. Hardly had this storm blown over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union...
Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...
Presently the weather grew thick. Pilot Lewis radioed ahead for instructions, was told to come in on the Saugus radio beam. Pilot Lewis flew on through a heavy snow storm, gradually "letting down" from 7,000 ft. At 11:05 he radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain...