Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus favoring the offense. In New England the blocking rule is severely enforced. To a lesser degree the same is true in East, South and Northwest. Even without hope of recognized national supremacy, each league last week had a fair idea of what teams would be in the top flight for the final play-offs next month. Midwest. Whether or not they offer the best basketball in the U. S., Midwest games stir up most excitement and draw biggest crowds. Farmers from miles around drove into Lafayette, Ind. for last week's game between Iowa and Purdue...
...arrived at Le Bourget, the fact that he was a simple fellow, who brought with him some sandwiches and several letters of introduction; that his stay in Paris was continually under the guiding hand of that master diplomat, Ambassader Herrick, who saw the international value of Lindbergh's flight; that Lindbergh's return to New York, especially his clever treatment of the innumerable stories released concerning him and his mother, was, and still is, considered a masterpiece in the art of handling publicity? I have nothing against him for this, it shows good business sense. The only complaint that...
...Century's turn Walter Wellman was an adventuring journalist. Having discovered the exact landing place of Columbus, and led two unsuccessful searches for the North Pole, he persuaded Publisher Frank B. Noyes in 1906 to put up $75,000 for an airship flight to the Pole. The money paid for the dirigible America I, in which Explorer Wellman & party collided with a glacier. Two years later America II also got into trouble. Before America II could make another try, Peary reached the Pole afoot and Explorer Wellman lost interest. However, his Arctic experience enabled him to sense, prove...
...francs. U. S. capital which during the past year had fled abroad was already beginning to come home because of the semi-stabilized dollar. More insistent than ever were predictions that France would have to leave the gold standard if it wanted to check the flight of capital to the U. S. So in spite of heavy purchases of francs to obtain gold, there were even more heavy sales of francs by people who wanted to buy dollars. In consequence the price of the franc fell, making it still more profitable to ship French gold...
...balloon flight came as a complete national surprise. For the past six months Osoaviakhim (civilian aviation society) had been planning a stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim...