Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Hyde Park next day trooped Mr. Ickes and his new Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West; Mr. Hopkins and his crack statistician, Corrington Gill; Frank Walker, Rex Tugwell, Budget Director Daniel Bell. Morning, afternoon & evening pencils scratched, words flew across the big library table in Hyde Park House. When the visitors set out for Washington late at night Mr. Hopkins looked chipper, Mr. Ickes glum...
Foreign Minister' Hoare flew to London a clean-cut hero to most British voters, his more enthusiastic friends even suggesting that if he keeps up the pace he set last week he should crown his career one day by realizing his great ambition to become Prime Minister...
...Family in official mourning for Belgium's late Queen Astrid (TIME, Sept. 9). borrowed Edward of Wales's scarlet & blue twin-engined Dragon, winged to Brussels with the Royal Standard flying to represent King George at the funeral, stopped overnight with Britain's Military Attaché, flew home to his spouse in Scotland...
...Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...
Famine suddenly threatened the Ruala, forcing a great migration into enemy grazing grounds. The entire tribe of 35,000 with 350,000 camels, moved north into Syria. A movement so vast had international complications. French scouting planes flew overhead; raiding automobiles harried the tribe on the march. In a desperate move, Faris and Carl Raswan, representing Amir Fuaz, drove into the enemy grounds of the Fid'an to ask permission for the Ruala to graze there. Received suspiciously, threatened with death, they threw themselves on the hospitality of the Fid'an, who were thus compelled to let them...