Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late copy of TIME was handed to Mr. Perry. He declined to read it because he would not break into his regular order of reading TIME. Incidentally, that particular copy of TIME went back to Pearl Harbor in one of the seaplanes that made the first non-stop flight over this lonely section of the Pacific Ocean...
...began to have other ideas three years ago when they decided to expand. Sharing their plans was Brother John's good Harvard friend Davis Merwin, who in Bloomington, Ill. was running his family's 99-year-old Pantograph, and running it well enough to make it top-flight among small-town papers. For their first step, Messrs. Cowles & Merwin sought a community with a high rating of literacy and education, a high percentage of native-born U. S. citizens, preferably of northern European stock, an even distribution of purchasing power with few rich, few poor. The paper they...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed his name...
There was no ceremony as. under cloudless skies, the huge silver Pan American Clipper rose from the waters of San Francisco Bay, headed off on her second flight to Honolulu. The trip had been purposely delayed to await a storm forecast-a test of the Clipper's mettle. That night the great Sikorsky flew under cloudy skies over the rough Pacific until at dawn the light of Makapu Point reached out across Koneohe Bay. Then Oahu Bay appeared and First Officer Sullivan set her 19 tons down lightly in Pearl Harbor...