Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expense of the apparatus, which, when sent up from Blue Hill, is usually blown out to sea and lost. The average cost of the balloons, weather and radio equipment, and batteries, for one complete unit is about $40, while the average charge to charter a plane for one weather flight...
...Napoleon's personal decline to its miserable conclusion. An exhaustive record of the Emperor's last six years, St. Helena is a superb piece of composition that remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship of one antagonistic English jailer after another. A strange bunch of gifted eccentrics followed him. There was tiny, weasel-faced, unctuous Emmanuel de Las Cases, who was 49, three years older than Napoleon, and who followed Napoleon because he wanted to win immortality...
...jailbirds, futurist artists and philosophical anarchists as sensitively as she had responded to Florentine decadents, soon found her new companions too headstrong for her. She sponsored a modern art show and demonstrations of the I. W. W., entertained one of the dynamiters of the Los Angeles Times during his flight, was written up in the newspapers as a sphinx, a cigaret smoker, a society lady turned radical. But all her deftness in avoiding emotional commitments did not save her when she fell in love with John Reed, revisited Europe with...
...when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through the woods at night, of his attempted resignation when the full proportions of the catastrophe became clear. Thereafter he adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives...
...Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed...