Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notes and bonds. This load of debt, which it was hoped would soon be lightened by the receipt of German reparations, at length became top heavy. Speculators began to sell francs "short" in anticipation of a decline. The conservative investor, to avoid losses, sent his balances abroad, and a "flight of the franc" ensued...
...plans of the Norwegian Roald Amundsen for a North Pole flight are taking shape. His aide will be an American-Lieutenant Ralph E. Davison, detailed for this duty by the U. S. Naval Air Service. Recently married, Mrs. Davison begged her husband that she be allowed to accompany him on a novel honeymoon. By a fortunate compromise, she will go with him to Pisa. Italy, where Amundsen's planes are under construction by Dornier, famed German designer, and from there to Spitzbergen, Norway. The expedition (set for July) plans to explore the territory between Spitzbergen, Norway, and Point Barrow...
Heinan Described. The German engineer in question is Captain Anton Heinan, who (employed by the U. S. Navy Department) was aboard the Shenandoah on the occasion of its accidental flight. Short, slenderly built, Heinan has a keen and piercing blue eye, an air of imperturbability. Bred in the great German port of Hamburg, he was a seaman before becoming Germany's most noted dirigible pilot. He flew the Bodensee between Berlin and Friedrichshafen in south Germany on passenger-carrying service with almost clocklike regularity, claims to have carried 100,000 passengers without a single casualty in ten years...
...voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice. But it would be possible only with the lighter hydrogen gas. "With hydrogen, we could make the trip to the Pole and back easily and safely. With helium it is necessary to have mooring masts...
...Lieutenant Hinton's talk about the NC4 flight was not altogether interesting for those of us who are favored with good memories. This brave young man evidently was conscious of this fact himself if WJZ was not. 'News while news is newsy' is our motto here at the Trib...