Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsided. The stirrer was Colonel William Mitchell who two weeks ago denounced the "incompretency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense," by high officers of the Army and the Navy (TIME, Sept. 14); and pointed his remarks by references to the Shenandoah disaster, the attempted flight to Hawaii, the MacMillan expedition...
...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
...Pacific Flight...
This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...