Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
France. As to the flight of capital from France provoked by the fall of Premier Doumergue's "Truce Cabinet," the Bank of France was seen last week to have lost gold worth 360 million francs, or less than one-half per cent of its reserves of over 82 billions...
...Brock kept up his daily flying, made an air tour of the 48 states to foster better airports. An escort of nine Army planes accompanied him on the flight which rounded out his second straight year of a flight-a-day. In thick weather and thin he carried on, had many a close call, always came through. His health improved, his million-dollar-a-year eyeglass business prospered. Last week he ended his fifth year of daily flying with an aerial tour of Kansas and Missouri accompanied by 20 civilian and military planes...
...days later the record-breaking Douglas was scheduled to make a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight between Newark and Lines' new Miami to high-speed inaugurate schedules Eastern with Air Douglas equipment. Pioneered by TWA, which put up $140,000 for its development, the Douglas Luxury Airliner is now used by Eastern Air. General Air Lines, American Airlines, Pan American Airways, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Swissair, Spanish Airlines and Austrian Airlines...
...left in 1917 to become chief designer for the aviation section of the U. S. signal corps. In 1920 Donald Douglas, at 28, started his own company, on a shoestring. He won a Navy contract against heavy competition, built four planes for the Army's round-the-world flight in 1924, concentrated on military aviation until...