Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote a letter to The National Aeronautical Association that was meeting in Washington last week, and suggested that an international air conference and exhibition be held next year to celebrate the silver (25th) anniversary of "the first flight by man in a power-driven heavier-than-air machine . . . made by Mr. Orville Wright, one of our fellow citizens...
...Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation becomes increasingly mobile. Last week was delivered to F. Trubee Davison a new amphibian, capable of 700 miles flight, carrying three: The pilot, the Assistant Secretary, the Assistant Secretary's secretary...
Said Chief Justice Taft, descriptive: "The Langley Medal was established in memory of the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. During the last 15 years of his life Dr. Langley's primary interest was in making possible man's flight...
Previous recipients: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Glen H. Curtiss, Gustave Eiffel (for research on the properties of the air in respect to flight...
...shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick, he never lost the lightning of his hand and eye. To the day of his death he could catch a fly in flight between his thumb & forefinger. The day of his death, like most of the days of his life, found Griffo without a dime. Money was minted to his memory. In an imposing white metal casket, gift of Tex Rickard, Griffo was buried from the consequential Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The funeral throng was mixed...