Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale, able boxer, was chosen leader of a British expedition to attempt an airplane flight over world's-highest Mt. Everest (29.141 ft.) this month...
...Mary-Louise Ulmer, amateur aviatrix of Pottsville, Pa. Next year, after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...
...spick & span riding habits George R. Hutchinson and his flying family arrived back in Manhattan last week, ready to cash in on their incompleted seaplane flight to Europe. Amazed at the lashing he had received from the Press for taking along his two young daughters, Pilot Hutchinson argued: "I did not subject my family to any more hazards than if they were traveling in an automobile. . . . The people who are criticizing me now are the same ones who boast of their ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, bringing their children with them. Don't you suppose that...
Jesus Carranza, 24, son of Mexico's onetime (1917-20) President Venustiano Carranza, took his first flying lesson at Valley Stream, L. I. Four years ago his cousin, Capt. Emilio Carranza, "Lindbergh of Mexico," died attempting a non-stop flight from Manhattan to Mexico...
Secure in Chicago business and society despite the flight of his father and uncle, last week Samuel Insull Jr. bowed to his losses, rented the bottom floor of his 25th and 26th-floor duplex. By doing so he lost a kitchen, living room, dining room and several bedrooms. He still has room enough for a comfortable home for himself, his wife, and Samuel Insull...