Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observant newsreaders were astounded by a story that the Boston Traveler, having sent a wireless message to Mrs. Lindbergh requesting an interview in flight, received the reply: "Wait a minute, I'll ask Lindy. . . . Anne." According to Pan American's log of Operator Lindbergh's messages she did not use her husband's detested nickname but replied merely: "Sorry. . . . Too busy. . . KHCAL...
Reward. French Flyers Codos & Rossi made a world's record distance flight last August from New York to Syria (5,700 mi.), in anticipation of a 1,000,000 fr. prize announced by France's youthful Air Minister Pierre Cot. Having mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to raise some 750,000 fr. for expenses, Heroes Codos & Rossi learned last week that the Government, economizing, had changed its mind about the prize...
...hemorrhage was golden. Because the Chamber has voted down Cabinet after Cabinet rather than balance the budget (TIME. Oct. 30, et ante), gold was pouring out of France at the rate of 100,000,000 francs a day, in flight to London, Amsterdam, Geneva and even Berlin. The Deputies pointed to the Bank of France gold reserves of nearly 80 billion francs and contended that the drain of 100 million francs a day could continue for at least another month before becoming "dangerous." This would give time, they remarked, to construct more Cabinets and "find a real majority...
...plot is farcically fantastic. A Philadelphia nightclub dancer (Polly Walters) reaches Princeton, almost naked in her flight from the scene of a murder. She baby-talks four undergraduates who occupy one dormitory entry into hiding her in their rooms until the police hunt blows over. One of the boys tells his father, a cinema executive, about her. The father and his assistant (Charles D. Brown) decide to exploit the girl and her romantic situation preparatory to signing her for a cinema. In the course of so doing, the dean gets knocked out, the senior (John Beal) who hit him, loses...
...stratosphere balloon was jockeyed out of its air dock at Akron one early morning last week only a few hundred persons had turned out to watch. On hand were no admirals, no major generals, no tycoons such as graced the seven-hour ceremonies preceding the Settle flight last August which was brought to a quick and ignominious finish in a Chicago railroad yard by a defective valve (TIME, Aug. 14). Since then Soviet stratospherists had made the chances of a new record harder by ascending to 11.8 mi. (TIME...