Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
...onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked to trace the ransom money...
...largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after his 1927 flight. The three Norfolkers made a secret journey to Hopewell and it was then that their identity was discovered by the prying Press. Back in Norfolk. Preacher Dobson-Peacock bemoaned the fact that the story had leaked out, feared that it might impede the recovery of the child...
Happy Landing has to do with a young man, not unlike Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who sets out on a transpacific flight. Just to make it more difficult, the playwrights have the journey begin at Old Orchard, Me. That such a feat could be accomplished without refueling is explained by having the heroine (Margaret Sullavan). mention "the new carburetor" with which the ship is equipped. When the youth gets back home he is, of course, a national hero. He lunches with the President, is made a colonel in the reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter...
...water concentrated what birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed to have reduced the kill from nearly 18 to seven million birds, may result in a longer...