Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This somewhat nebulous office was held by Tuan Chi-jui from November, 1924, until his flight from Peking a fortnight...
...Pops concert at 8.15 tonight in Symphony Hall under the direction of Agide Jacchia: Polonaise Militaire Chopin Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Spring Song Mendelssohn Fantasia from "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann-Jacchia a. Preamble b. Pierrot c. Chopin d. Reconnaisance e. Sphinxes Trombone Quartet Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov Tenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Prelude to the "Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner The Music Box Liadov Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
Wilkins. The silence that shut down upon the ether of northern Alaska after a last "All's well" from the monoplane Alaskan as she winged away from Fairbanks on her third flight from there to Point Barrow, continued all last week, stretching into nine days. Major Lanphier, second-in-command of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, rushed repairs on the big trimotored biplane Detroiter. He took the air in search of the missing plane but was soon forced back by motor trouble. His last orders from Captain Wilkins had been to pick up and move their base from Fairbanks to Barrow...
...rode the high seas in their steel ship Chantier toward Tromso, where there waited for him an ice pilot, thoughtfully engaged for Byrd by Explorer Amundsen to keep the Chantier's hull uncrushed by ice between Tromso and Spitzbergen. Byrd flashed congratulations to Captain Wilkins upon his reconnoissance flight to 73° 30' N. (TIME, April 19). There was, allegedly, no race among the three parties, no rivalry. During the next weeks they intended to talk when possible by radio, assist whoever meets disaster...