Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenants generally stage numerous frontier "incidents" which are supposed to show that the Führer's patience is being taxed by cruel treatment of his people in the territory he has his eye on. The Poles played the same game. When the German press described a "mass flight" of Germans from Polish "terrorism," Poles charged that hundreds of their citizens were being driven daily from Silesia and East Prussia...
With her two 2,000-h.p. Wright Cyclones rumbling, she taxied out to open water, swung into the wind and poised for flight. Spindrift ripping from her slim stern, she was up on the step. Then...
...only had sold the first plane (to Portland Restaurateur Paul F. Ryan) but had been informed that from now on he will have more financial backing, can soon produce the Geodetics in quantity. After his partner and test pilot Allen David Greenwood, Oregon Aeronautics Inspector, had landed from the flight over town, jubilant Builder Yates announced that a syndicate of Portland citizens would shortly begin construction of a plane factory...
Geodetic construction is used on no other American plane, but Britain's geodetic Vickers Wellesley bombers are among the finest in the world, hold the longdistance flight record of 7,162 miles. By using spruce, of which Oregon has plenty, instead of metal weaving strips, Greenwood-Yates have cut the cost of frame material for a single airplane to $50, are able to build it lighter than with steel...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...