Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coward, and will not decline the challenge of Subscribess Catherine M. Whitsitt who writes to you (TIME, April 30) that she wants to give me "a poke in the nose," because I suggested to you (TIME, April 9) that President Calvin Coolidge ought to make a flight with Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Sunday, April 22, he was rushed to the Jeffrey Hale hospital, Quebec; word was flashed to New York. The New York World and the North American Newspaper Alliance, sponsors of the flight, immediately telephoned Dr. William H. Delaney, superintendent of the hospital, suggesting a consultation, which was gratefully accepted. Dr. Alvan L. Barach, assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, was sent up as consultant, arriving in Quebec with his special apparatus and two tanks of compressed oxygen, Monday, April 23. Bennett's condition was very grave. A large part of the left lung was already involved...
...Floyd Bennett's sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were against Bennett...
Damnation. That evening Prime Minister of Quebec Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau and Provincial Secretary L. Athanase David spoke long and loud before their public. They characterized the Lindbergh flight as unnecessary, as pure bluff, as U. S. publicity under the guise of charity. They declared there was plenty of anti-pneumonia serum to be had in Quebec. Said Spokesman David...
...Wilkins," he concluded, "has given all these well-known facts a new meaning by his flight, and may be considered a pioneer in what will probably develop into one of the greatest air routes of the future...