Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well satisfied on the whole with Ethiopia's brightest war week thus far, Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the knitting and poker-playing correspondents now call "Little Charlie" among themselves, flew to Harar on the Southern Front...
...build bases. For this, Pan American last March chartered the 4,653-ton S. S. North Haven, sent her on a three-month expedition at a cost of $2,000,000 to establish airports at Midway, Wake and Guam. As each base was completed, the Sikorsky Clipper flew to it, tested its facilities to the limit (TIME, April 29, May 27, June 24, Sept. 2). Flawless as these flights have been, Pan American still regards its training incomplete, will not carry passengers until the whole route has been flown five times. Probable cost of one-way ticket...
...Honolulu some of this cargo was distributed during the night's halt. More was added in the shape of mail, ice-cream, Thanksgiving dinners, odds & ends, and 14 Pan American employes to be carried to Midway and Wake. Off at dawn, the Clipper, loaded almost to capacity, flew on to Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long...
...nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...
...onetime New Zealand music student named Jean Batten. Abandoning her studies in London, she acquired a plane which once belonged to Edward of Wales, set out on a career of distance flying. On England-Australia flights she cracked-up twice, finally made it in 1934. Year later she flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time...