Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coliseum the Prophet, heavily veiled as always, presided at the annual ball. Crowned Queen was debutante Myrtle McGrew Lambert. She is the daughter of Albert Bond Lambert, onetime president of Lambert Pharmacal Co. ("Listerine"). He gave Charles Augustus Lindbergh his first $1,000 toward financing his transatlantic flight, gave St. Louis the ground for its municipal airport, Lambert-St. Louis Field...
...shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward. Surprised to see a swordfish so close to land, they pursued it. Soon they saw the reason. Behind it was a school of sharks. As they watched, the swordfish turned, attacked one of its pursuers. The sharks surrounded it, cutting off its flight. No sooner had the swordfish beaten off one shark than another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating...
...civilian flying and continued betterment in military and scheduled airline flying. On scheduled lines there was one fatality for every 19,346 passengers carried, against one in 17,396 in 1930, 3,314 in 1928. The air traveler need not expect to be killed before his 20,000th flight. On a passenger-mile basis he is reasonably certain of flying 4,600,000 mi. safely. It is still, statistically, 100 times as hazardous to fly on regular airways as to take a train but only four times as dangerous as riding in an automobile. Including one absent-minded person...
...different story if an amateur pilot invites you for a cross-country hop in his plane. By the law of averages you would be dead before your 4,000th flight- five times as dangerous as scheduled airline flying. Contrary to popular opinion it is a trifle less dangerous to take sight-seeing flights or air taxis than to fly by transport plane, largely because "joy hops" are very short. Scheduled flights average between two and three hours, nonscheduled one-half to one hour...
...comment on the Hutchinsons' flight...