Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment...
...Pacific, use them as 24-hr. broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several ships by radio, flew back through blinding fog with perfect accuracy...
...tiny Gypsy-Moth, Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott declared wearily: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame...
...Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
Instantly there was turmoil. Mr. Fox's threat of a dictatorship was scoffed at but the scoffing was tremulous and there were conferences behind locked doors, attempts to reassure alarmed exhibitors. Rumors flew that Mr. Fox had been offered millions to sell out. He answered by suing virtually the whole industry, eleven companies in all. By this time the defendants' battery of counsel included onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell...