Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division six-story building-once a bootleg brewery-was humming with routine activity. Tons of soy-bean mash seethed in huge vats. An unlucky janitor, going to lunch, turned back to get his coat. That was the last anyone saw of him alive. Suddenly the walls of the building flew out like the staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread...
...bombs delivered the first thuds of actual war last week, most Frenchmen abruptly forgot that they have always been the best friends of the League of Nations and indulged in an orgy of self-interest. Among parties of the Left and Right fierce anti-Fascist and pro-Fascist epithets flew. Deputies rushed up from the provinces and buzzed feverishly in the lobbies of their Chamber, though it was not in session and Premier Pierre Laval would rather have butted his hard head into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris...
...send rockets perhaps 150 mi. into the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized air with instruments which will record meteorological and other data, float back to earth on parachutes. Pleased, Messrs. Guggenheim & Lindbergh promised another year of support by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, climbed into their plane, flew away...
...plane flew o'er Alaska Above the ice and snow; The engine started missing The fog was hanging low. It lit upon the water With a mighty splash And when it tried to rise again There was an awful crash...
...Hughes had tired of Hollywood, turned back to aviation as a prime interest. Hiding under a pseudonym, he got a job as transport pilot for American Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took to developing special racers which he flew with moderate success in U. S. air-meets. Latest of these was the husky red-winged plane which last week plopped him down in the beet patch when its fuel line abruptly clogged...