Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus three entrants in the Dole Prize flight to Honolulu lost. Came criticism that greediness for the $25,000 prize and the $10,000 second prize was taking men into the air with inefficient planes. Airmen answered that all tests were under U. S. Department of Commerce supervision. Flyers in the race signed a last minute agreement to delay the start four days, to give opportunity for minuter mechanical overhauling, stricter sifting of entrants' abilities...
Planned for seven years, built in three, the blimp, 94 feet long with a fancied resemblance to the Los Angeles, had been intended to stay up indefinitely. Those who watched it careen over Times Square, veering in the wind, agreed that indefiniteness had characterized the flight...
...Fords are fine people. Henry Ford is great because he dreams and has ideals and puts them into practice. It was a wonderful experience to talk with him." Each spoke after a conference in Detroit after which Edsel Ford said he would help financially to back a Byrd flight over the South Pole as he helped back him to the North Pole. The South Pole trip was postponed...
...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
...form used last week by Signor Turati: "When we become really free and strong, then, and then only, will the treasures of our great past and our glorious his tory be really ours. Then the Roman eagles will resume their flight again. Where will they alight? It matters not, if the flight be strenuous and the victory great...