Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, with his usual good fortune, happened to be 750 miles away in Canton and so did not immediately have to do or say anything in rebuttal to the Japanese. "My God, my God - this is terrible!" cried Chinese officials, while Cabinet members piled into planes, flew to Christian Premier Chiang, persuaded him to fly with them back to Nanking, his Capital...
...lure financial backing, he last week sent a Denny standard model zooming from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal carrying eight ounces of gasoline. With news cameramen and a National Aeronautic Association official trailing in a full-sized airplane, the tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...
...Hamilton learned to fly at about the age most humans learn to swim. At 14 he had already built and flown gliders of his own, thereby earning his credentials as one of the earliest of "The Early Birds," a U. S. society composed of people who flew before Dec. 17, 1916.* But his most precocious exploit was the organization, at 15, of a company to make airplane propellers. Businessman and barnstormer at 21, Hamilton went to Vancouver, B. C. in 1915 to teach the Royal Air Force. While there he opened another propeller factory, later moved to Milwaukee to make...
...rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept. 5 the calibre of Red guns picking at the Alcázar was up to six inches, but its six-foot walls stood firm. Next day a White plane flew over the fortress, dropped large packages of foodstuffs. Red batteries finally splintered to bits an ornate door frame of the Alcázar known as "The Portal of the Blood of Christ...
Next morning Ruby Hart ("Miss Nebraska") announced that she was homesick, sped to Newark airport, flew back to Omaha. That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed...