Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the azure waters of Capri last week bald, cerebral British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rose on the wings of an Italian seaplane piloted by Ace Major Attilio Biseo, veteran of the Balbo flight to Chicago. Beside Sir John sat the Duke of San Vito, a secretary in Il Duce's Foreign Office. To discuss Dictator Mussolini's bold plan to "reform" the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 18) Sir John had come from London, pausing to enjoy the holidays at Capri before getting to business...
Neither the deathly plight of a Houston baby with water on the brain, nor a speedy flight by Air-Champion James R. Wedell, nor an operation by Johns Hopkins' Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy is in itself important news. But the combination of all three last week on the front page of the nation's Press gave the country a stirring drama of death defeated by human effort...
...Hitler's rise to power. Other "biggest'' stories, chosen by one or more: California earthquake (TIME, March 20; April 3), San Jose lynchings (TIME, Dec. 4), death of President Coolidge (TIME, Jan. 16), the Cuban revolution (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.), Wiley Post's world flight (TIME, July 31), Lindbergh's four-continent flight (TIME, July 31, et seq.), defeat of Tammany (TIME...
...minded individuals might pick Italo Balbo, leader of Italy's mass flight to the World's Fair, as the year's outstanding airman. But the Federation Aeronautique Internationale hinted that it would make no award this year, having honored Flyer Balbo once before...
Nine days before Orville Wright made his first flight 30 years ago last month at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, had a four-winged flying machine called the Dragon Fly ready to take off from the top of a houseboat in the Potomac River. With a mighty chug-chugging the contraption reared up, flopped into the water. Several years later the Dragon Fly was patched up and flown. The Smithsonian secured it for exhibit, labeled it "... The First Machine Capable of Flight Carrying a Man." Enraged, the Wright Brothers refused...