Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport of enthusiasm at a civilian exploit, Congress in 1927 broke its own rules limiting the award to military men in actual conflict with an enemy and voted the Medal of Honor to Charles Augustus Lindbergh for his flight to Paris...
...singer overture, given such verve that the audience shouted its enthusiasm. In sequence came the gentle Siegfried Idyl, the prelude and finale from Tristan und Isolde, a performance of The Ride of the Valkyries with shadings so subtle, with force so dynamic that it really seemed like a preternatural flight through the skies...
Reporting. Best reporting job the Pulitzer judges spotted this year was turned in by spectacled Lauren D. ("Deac") Lyman of the New York Times, who learned of the Lindberghs' flight to England, kept it a secret four days, scooped the country after they put to sea (TIME, Jan. 6). Exclusive publication of this big story was regarded as a personal favor from Colonel Lindbergh to Reporter Lyman. who in 1927 made the Times's first contact with obscure young Aviator Lindbergh before he flew to Paris. Reporter Lyman is $1,000 richer for his pains...
...Liberty Bell 19 times with a mallet. In Manhattan, in El Paso, in Phoenix and elsewhere, pigeons were released to fly somewhere else. In Miles City, Mont, a pigeon-fancier named Walter Dyba, who had shipped four birds to Washington, waited for one of them to make a record flight home. Said Mrs. Dyba: "It'll be a miracle if any of them ever get here...
...roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...