Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy, after having contributed nothing to Commander Richard E. Byrd's flight to the North Pole (TIME, May 17, 1926) later "picked him as a means of propaganda in the same way they have attempted to pick up Lindbergh...
After the late Commander John Rodger's flight to the Hawaiian Islands (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), the Navy brought him "over his own protest" to Washington, D. C., "for propaganda purposes," and allowed him to keep on flying though the condition of his eyes made him unfit for active service. "This resulted in this gallant officer's death in Philadelphia in a stall of his plane...
...centers have been swamped by applicants for the flying service.) From a passenger-carrying standpoint, at least, the U. S. is far behind Europe in aviation-last year, for example, thousands airplaned across the English Channel in a regular airline service. U. S. aviation enthusiasts saw in the Lindbergh flight an opportunity for aviation to catch the popular imagination...
...sisters removed to England where Victoria became Mrs. John Biddulph Martin; Tennessee, the wife of Sir Francis Cook. In 1914 Mrs. Martin helped to organize the Women's Aerial League of England, offered $5,000 and a trophy for the first aviator to make a transatlantic flight. Tennessee Claflin Cook died...
...annihilates Christian idiocies. Her weapons are neither rapiers nor bludgeons. They are satin sofa-pillows which she tosses laughingly but with accuracy. Breaking when they land, her missiles leave the recipient white and ridiculous with feathers. In prose as easygoing, as smooth and level as a buzzard's flight, she matches her astute intelligence with a fancy as varied as it is engaging...