Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved toward stability in international exchange by approving his Secretary of the Treasury's lifting transfer restrictions in force since last January. Fearing no flight of U. S. capital, the Treasury will henceforth permit the free transfer of credit and all kinds of currency except gold...
When hard, fortyish Colonel Robert de la Roque marched with his quick, springy stride into the Premier's office anything was possible, including - as some jittery Paris papers pointed out - civil war. Gold was in panicky flight from France, citadel of the Gold Standard. Nearly $50,000,000 worth had been drawn by frightened capitalists from the Bank of France within 48 hours to be rushed abroad. Moreover Premier Doumergue had every reason to believe that he had the nation with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving...
...hours after the start of the Milden-hall-to-Melbourne Air Race three weeks ago Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australia's No. 1 airman, took off from Brisbane for California. Had he finished the flight the day Britons Scott & Black reached Melbourne, he would have shared their world headlines. As it was, he and his Lockheed Altair, Lady Southern Cross, did not reach their destination until last week...
Critics charged Kingsford-Smith with trying to set up a "counter-attraction" to the main show. Replied he: "In this flight, more difficult than the England-to-Australia race, I will show that l am no squib...
...Charles' motor was hardly cold last week before one Tom Catton slapped the plane under attachment, claiming $1,750 and interest for services allegedly rendered at the time of the West-East flight...