Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized that it had not been more exciting as an adventure, of greater value scientifically, or of more significance geographically, prefaced her book with a little essay on romance...
...back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt carried 42 of the 48 states of the Union...
...Aalberse would have to take five Communist Deputies into coalition to get a majority, and from such Bolsheviks the Catholics instinctively recoiled. Back in as Premier popped Calvinist Colijn. Last week aroused Dutch opinion was branding the Catholic Party as a pack of villains or fools responsible for the flight of 131,000,000 hard, heavy, gold guilders from The Netherlands Bank...
...formulate his decision. Director Darling began with a duck census, taken by conservation agents and helpful sportsmen all over the U. S. one day last February, just before the northward flight (TIME, Feb. n). Census-takers posted themselves on bays, inlets, lakes and rivers in such a way as to try to avoid counting the same ducks twice. Against the rough tally thus obtained, the Biological Survey checked later reports from northern breeding grounds, arriving at the figure of 24,000,000 as the number of ducks that will fly south this autumn...
...better reinforced. Folding, cause of last year's disaster, was carefully avoided. Instead of explosive hydrogen, safe helium gas was chosen. Equally improved was everything else. By June 5, these preparations had cost the U. S. Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, joint sponsors of the flight, some $175,000. Then for a month Captains Orvil A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens twiddled impatiently, waiting for good weather on high. Last week it came. Joyfully, the camp went to work. Without shoes and wearing cotton gloves to protect the rubbery fabric, 300 soldiers gingerly smoothed...