Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the More Game Birds in America Foundation for a 1¢ shell tax (TIME, March 28). Before the groups could agree on any measure Congress had adjourned. Meanwhile the American Game Association had sent observers to the breeding grounds, had received reports that conditions were good for a large flight this year. The Migratory Bird Advisory Board (game commissioners, sportsmen, naturalists, conservationists) met last fortnight in Washington, recommended a 60-day season. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde approved the recommendation, passed it on to the President...
Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight...
...sport of soaring, Germany leads the world. That is chiefly because the Allies, in the Treaty of Versailles, tried to clip her wings with restrictions upon military aeronautics and plane-building. Germany's War pilots turned to motorless flight, not mentioned in the Treaty, developed it as a science and a national pastime...
...Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, three-year-old grandson of Man o' War, with Jockey Silvio Coucci up: the Arlington Classic, year's richest ($88,100) U. S. three-year-old race; by three lengths, with Stepenfetchit second, field horses third and fourth, Top Flight, the favorite, fifth, Faireno eighth; in Chicago...
...ship is intended for long-distance patrol flight, heavy bombing. Except for fabric coverings of wing and tail surfaces, it is built of metal, principally aluminum. Four Curtiss engines will be mounted on the 100-ft. wing. Hull length: 70 ft. (DO-X dimensions: wingspread 157 ft.; length...