Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Peruvian citizens should be reimbursed for their property left behind in their flight from Tacna-Arica...
...which airplane or other engines can be stopped in full operation through an invisible ray. He has demonstrated its efficacy with but a quarter kilowatt of power on engines in the laboratory, and needs only to strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected, the ray could be so intensified as to set the wing fabric afire. Said he: "I believe that in the near future machine guns will...
What Germany Thinks. While Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, announced that plans for the proposed Gold Reserve Bank were complete, it was learned that nearly 8,000,000,000 gold marks of German capital had been traced in its flight abroad by the McKenna Experts Committee (TIME, March 3). Forecasts of the Dawes report indicated resentment at the idea of an Allied Commissioner General. The suggested loan to Germany of $200,000,000 was considered too small. Nationalists and industrialists bitterly attacked the whole scheme. Dr. Schacht opposed Allied control, saying "a nation of 60,000,000 cannot...
...important records-speed, endurance, distance. Therefore, Laurent Eynac, whom Premier Poincaré has promoted from Under Secretary to High Commissioner of Aviation, has offered valuable prizes as his first official act: 200,000 francs for speed; 150,000 francs for seaplane speed; 100,000 francs for a distance flight. The French will not easily beat Lieut. "Al" Williams' 266.59 miles per hour, and Macready & Kelly's transcontinental flight of 2,600 miles...
Australians are now making a flight of 9,000 miles around their island continent They will record data concerning hot flying and will also determine the practicability of unifying the sparse populations of Australia...