Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute...
...ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made a dozen trips to the aft observation hatch to ''shoot the stars." At midnight the men shared a supper of special self-heating foods...
Capt. Musick and his men stepped from the ship as jaunty and fresh as if they had just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway...
Scientific purpose of Mrs. Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
Leaving her husband in bed from heart strain (TIME, April 15), Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of Britain's Lord Privy Seal, flew up from Leeds with a party of local bigwigs to open an airline to Heston. Flustered by such a great and pretty passenger, the plane's pilot landed too fast at Heston Airdrome, skidded on through a fence, deposited the ceremonial party in a pasture...