Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days, perhaps before this letter reaches you, Rossi and Codos will take off for a nonstop flight to Rio, in their five-year-old plane, with an engine which has already flown 1,000 hours, and if they too succeed, then there will be great rejoicing chez Isnardon, and the wings of France will once more be lifted toward the stars...
Last week Pilot Joe Kirton, his resignation in, got ready to make his last flight for Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways Co. (London-Paris). Presently two girls who had been pacing back & forth at Stapleford Airdrome boarded his plane. They sucked nervously at cigarets. Said one: "Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin...
...only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...
...into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level of other murders, were: 1) in flight the secretary wore boy's clothes; 2) when detectives on the faster Laurentic overtook the Montrose, wireless was used for the first time to apprehend a fugitive criminal. Taken back to England, the bald, walrus-mustached, unattractive little uxoricide was hanged. The secretary went free...
...been politely, if inaccurately, referred to as a "boom." Such a "boom" may be of unprecedented proportions, but the Government has unprecedented powers to control it. Whether it will is another question. "A moderate and reasonable expectation is that there will be control and no runaway inflation of the flight-from-the-dollar variety within the next two or three years. Beyond that it is impossible...