Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With youthful Secretary of Agriculture Wallace at the controls, Domestic Allotment was wheeled out of its hangar last week for its first trial flight. The noisy warm-up of its administrative motors made a joyful sound to 1,200,000 U. S. wheat growers whose commodity had been picked for the initial experiment under the Farm Relief Act. The consuming public bated its breath to see how this new theory of economic flight would work. Was it to be one more expensive smash-up like the late Farm Board's attempt at price-pegging...
Orbetello hotels were filled last week with females young & old, beauteous & unlovely. They were the women folk of 100 aviators who awaited the signal to start the biggest show ever staged by Italian aviation: the mass flight of 25 seaplanes across the ocean to Chicago and A Century of Progress...
...months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried home, exhumed her marriage certificate, stormed the Air Ministry at Rome. But she was not permitted...
Playing Safe. At the end of the week in which Jimmie Mattern airily promised to circle the earth from and to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (TIME, June 12) he was in Khabarovsk. Far Eastern Siberia, so utterly exhausted by a grueling flight across sea and land that he could not even answer newsmen. With all chance gone of beating the 8½-day globe record of Post & Gatty he now was trying to make the best possible solo record, yet heeding the cabled exhortations of his backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern...
...Last Flight." A late afternoon breeze blew suddenly in from squally Lake Michigan, whipping up violent swells in front of the seaplane ramp at the Chicago World's Fair. Said an employe of the airplane sightseeing service to the pilot: "Do you think it's safe for landings?" Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave...