Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metz, France, April 19--French authorities tonight investigated eye-witness reports that a German plane flew over France's eastern frontier fortifications in the region of Thionville, at low altitude...
Last week the fastest British ship in service was sold to the knackers for ?80,000 to be broken up for scrap. Because she was the world's biggest, longest, fastest liner at her launching in 1907, because for nearly a quarter-century she flew the Blue Ribbon speed pennant of the North Atlantic, the passing of R. M. S. Mauretania marked for many an ocean-going oldster...
Standing on the fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
...second report (two sentences) told of the party's being joined at Lobos Cay by Son James Roosevelt who flew from Puerto Rico. His third report (three sentences) admitted arrival off Great Inagua Island, 500 miles at sea. His fourth report, equally brief, described swimming from the shore, the safe arrival of two seaplanesful of official mail when the Nourmahal touched at Crooked Island...
Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce issued its annual accident report for 1934: airlines flew nearly 700.000 mi. per accident as compared to just over 500.000 mi. per accident in 1933. Of 73 accidents last year, ten were fatal, killing 21 passengers, ten pilots. Of 101 accidents in 1933, nine were fatal to eight passengers, eight pilots...