Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Whiteman inspire?" Marilyn Miller broke into the circle. "Can you imagine him inspiring? I was asked to take a non stop flight around him several days...
Last week rumor rose that for next summer a direct flight to China was proposed for the first of flyers. An accomplished and reliable Chinese gentleman, also an aviator, sponsored the rumor. Skeptics pointed out that such a spectacular bid for Chinese good will was among the more remote problems of immediate statecraft. Hard-headed U. S. men, soft-hearted U. S. women grumblingly asked when the dangerous far-flung flights of Col. Lindbergh would cease...
...pointer and her students' papers. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh dressed herself warmly and was swept southward by the propeller windstorm of a sturdy trimotored Ford monoplane. One night she spent in St. Louis. The next day as her famed offspring in Mexico City was piloting on his first flight President Plutarco Elias Calles, the monoplane sprang to Tulsa, Okla. The third sunset found her in Brownsville, Texas. Next day up from the crowded field at Mexico City rose Col. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Swallowed in the clouds he missed the monoplane which he had flown to meet...
...HAVING REACHED MY KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU INTEND A FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK TO HAVANA IN THE ANTILLES I INVITE YOU TO DO SO VIA MEXICO WHERE YOU MAY REST ASSURED OF THE WARMEST WELCOME...
HONOR TO INFORM YOU WITH PLEASURE THAT TODAY AT TWELVE TWENTY SIX HE STARTED ON HIS DIRECT FLIGHT TO MEXICO...