Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such occasion Tommy Bilodeau came driving through the improvised enemy line with a quickness and a push that drew an offhand "Not Bad! Not bad!" from the busy coach. Then, seeing who it was and as if apologizing for expecting anything but top flight work from the Sophomore star, Harlow said with embarrassment "Oh! Sorry, Tom. Didn...
Right. The picture was Flight, produced in 1929 by Columbia, directed by Frank Capra...
...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...
...Fortnight ago Wiley Post set out from Los Angeles in the Winnie Mae on what was to be a 400-m.p.h. 7-hr. nonstop flight to New York in the substratosphere. An hour later an overheated engine forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...