Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man who taught King Edward to fly and usually pilots his plane, Flight Lieutenant Edward Hedley Fielden, became history's first "Captain of the King's Flight...
...frantic treasure hunt meanwhile was going on for some $30,000,000 ($105,000,000 in Chinese currency) in "small money." This had been "sequestered" by the province's former satrap, General Chen Chi-tang, who had majestically taken "flight" to British Hongkong with his movable treasures. The exciting question was: Could even smart Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before...
...nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting party of top-flight New Dealers headed by Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams. Farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa predicted a 50% loss unless rain came within a week. Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri reported that, rain or no rain, they would be lucky to harvest half their normal crop...
...appeal to the French small-Capitalist class to buy up a huge "baby bond" issue, broken into shares as low as $6.60 apiece. For the occasion the Bank of France, threatened with partial nationalization, lowered the discount rate to 3% and announced that gold reserves were up, the flight of gold from France ended...
...year-old Richard Chichester du Pont, son of vice president Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. His enthusiasm has been so infectious that his wife is now an expert pilot and his father has posted a $3,000 prize for the first flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of Times Square, another of $500 for the pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record...