Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight with Hitler to Essen, Göring showed Hitler certain other suspicious evidence gathered by his Secret Police. The Chancellor and the General then conferred with one of the Nazi Party's earliest and richest backers, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach who led Der Führer proudly through the Krupp Works. Chancellor Hitler, after inspecting Westphalian labor camps, flew on to Bonn. General Göring flew back to Berlin. "Have my plane made ready," he commanded mysteriously...
Soaring over the ridge an hour and a half gave Dick du Pont an idea. Year ago his father offered $3,000 for the first motorless flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map nor parachute was a risky business. But the opportunity might not come soon again. Southeast, without a second thought, young du Pont pointed the nose of Albatross II. Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along...
...Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...
...fuel gave out, made a neat three-point landing in a cow-pasture. Built by Maxwell Bassett, 19, of Philadelphia, winner of the Admiral Moffett and Texaco Trophies for gasoline-powered model planes, Miss Philadelphia IV will have her record certified by the National Aeronautic Association which observed her flight...
...absence of his favorite son. Joseph, finds him sitting in the moonlight by the side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban's far-off farmstead; the long years he spent there serving the closefisted Laban that he might marry his daughter Rachel; how Laban in turn cheated him, substituting his other daughter Leah ; how Jacob ended by marrying them both and taking...