Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German navy having 35% of Britain's total naval strength and could be represented to the German people as complete British capitulation, but the British public could be told it represented a German concession. So joyful was Adolf Hitler at this prospect that Ambassador von Ribbentrop promptly flew back to London, letting it be known that the Realmleader was willing not only to abide by the 35% limit, category for category, but also to bind Germany to this limit "absolutely and forever...
...TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down through the fog, flew low over rolling country apparently seeking Kirksville .When he made a turn too close to the ground, a wingtip hit, catapulted the plane into a roadbank...
...over a million men available for use in Africa. They were leaving Italy last week at the rate of two shiploads per day. As a final twist to the British lion's tail, Il Duce went down to Ostia, took the controls of his trimotored seaplane and flew off over the Tyrrhenian Sea for his first visit in twelve years to Sardinia, found two miles of conscripts lined up ready to embark...
...Glenn Luther Martin to his business associates that they made him sign a pledge 13 years ago never to ride in an airplane. Last week Airplane Designer Martin received word that his 78-year-old father lay dying in Santa Ana, Calif. Builder Martin boarded a plane at Baltimore, flew across the continent to his father's deathbed swiftly but too late. Said he: "I felt justified in breaking the contract and company officials agreed...
Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...