Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of returning to the U. S. by the northern route, as earlier expected, the Lindberghs headed for Lisbon, Portugal. Late last month, after brief jaunts about the British Isles, they made a secret flight through a night storm to Paris, where Colonel Lindbergh has not been since his 1927 flight. He showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips...
Meanwhile last week a squadron of French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...
Many people are inquiring what they ought to do about their money; whether, for instance, they should join the flight of capital to foreign countries. Naturally, they ask for information from Washington, because the key to the future is presumably in the minds of government officials...
...place for the American dollar is at home. Just what should be the form or kind of investment made is another thing, but any experimenting with foreign exchange holds risks for those who are not familiar with such transactions. It is not believed that the banks are encouraging a flight of capital. They are presumed to be withholding any advice that leads to an export of money...
...hoisted aboard like a toy in a napkin. The plane is mounted on the Westphalen's catapult whence it is shot off to continue its journey. After its overnight stop last week, the Monsoon was shot off in the morning for an easy day's flight of 950 mi. to Natal, Brazil. Total elapsed time across the ocean: 33½ hr. Other flying boats were standing by for additional rehearsal flights during the coming rainy season for the regular service which is to begin, with mail only, next spring...