Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caroms, draw shots and four-cushion banks at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. Defending Champion Johnny Layton, a 3-to-1 favorite to repeat, fell behind at the start. When he met Hoppe, a fly zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...France through the periscope of his Spirit of St. Louis, he dreamed of a huge airliner which would some day span oceans on regular commercial schedule. Last week such an airliner, final fruition of Lindbergh's dream, soared up from San Francisco Bay, droned westward on the first flight of a regular commercial schedule across the Pacific Ocean...
Fanfare. Since last week's flight was the first act of a performance for which they have been rehearsing for four years, Pan American officials decided to start it with a flourish. Because the China Clipper's cargo was entirely mail, Postmaster General Farley was asked to play the lead in the hour's program. Other speaking parts were taken by Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam, Hawaii's Governor Joseph Boyd Poindexter, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper...
With bland Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley primed to send her on her way and excitable Philippine President Manuel Quezon ready to receive her, the lithe new flying boat China Clipper last week floated in San Francisco Bay. On her first flight to Manila she was to carry a full load of mail, a crew of five, no passengers. Having postponed the trip once for stamp-collectors, Pan American Airways officials vowed that this time the great ship would leave on schedule-at 3:30 p. m. Pacific Time...
...perfect landing at Natal, Brazil one afternoon last week slid a tiny, single-motored De Haviland-Gypsy biplane. Out of 'it, her sharp little face bright with joy, jumped a slim, 25-year-old girl who had just become the first woman to make a solo flight across the South Atlantic.* Hustling off for a cup of tea she said: "I'll fly on to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow...