Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability to Dinsmore's attacks is perceptibly on the wane and when the escape ends in a circuitous return to the radio hut she is easily persuaded that it's a bit extreme to marry...
...correct a misstatement in TIME regarding a flight made by Roscoe Turner from Miami to Newark LTiME, Jan. 28]. You state "Turner took off ... ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's . . . record," but that a regular transport plane on the same day flew Miami-New York an hour faster than Turner, implying a race...
...Macon made her maiden flight in April 1933. Since the Los Angeles had been decommissioned year before, she became the only U. S. dirigible left in Naval service. Last spring in flying from California to Florida she broke two small girders in rough air over Texas (TIME, May 21). Even so, her builders and operators pooh-poohed the idea that there was anything structurally wrong with...
...Yesterday began a winter count. Men of practiced ability are at this moment stationed from Long Island to Yucatan, to simultaneously report on the winter resting grounds of ducks and geese. The spring flight will be closely watched and the 1935 nesting conditions again observed. On the tabulated results of these observations the Biological Survey will make its recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the President for next year's migratory waterfowl regulations. The first consideration will be the preservation of a safe margin of population among the ducks, I assure...
...broadcasts, became publicity and sales director at 25. Now only 32, he is a close adviser of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, who offered him a post as Commissioner of Markets. An ardent exponent of the Nazi boycott, he is one of the youngest and smartest first-flight merchandising executives in the smartest merchandising city in the land...