Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
Lowell Smith's Cross. For demonstrating six years ago the feasibility of air refueling, Capt. Lowell H. Smith last week received his Distinguished Service Flying Cross. His flight companion, Lieut. John P. Richter, already had his Cross...
Professor Shapley is delivering a series of lectures at the College of the City of New York which will terminate on December 18. His general subject is "Flight from Chaos" and the series includes lectures on "The Microcosmos", "Concerning Planets and Their Fate", "The Ends of the World and Beyond", and "the Cosmoplasma...
...Flying Club's Travelair made its third long distance flight of the year Wednesday, when H. W. Fuller '30, with R. S. Osborne '30 as passenger, flew the plane from the East Boston Airport to South Dartmouth, near New Bedford on the Cape...