Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special train from Greece, King Zog, Queen Geraldine, Prince Skander, the King's sisters, and a suite of 110 fellow Albanian refugees arrived in Istanbul, the Queen looking quite recovered (see cut) from her hair-raising flight from the Italian invader. The King piled his family into a hotel and settled down with permission to stay in Turkey as long as he keeps his hands out of political mischief...
...afternoon last week an air-raid alarm jarred Chungking. Return of fine weather had meant return of Japanese bombers, held off by three months of fog & mist. Earlier in the week two raids in which 36 Japanese planes took part had set fires that were still burning, started a flight of refugees that was still going on. At 4:20, 16 Chinese pursuit planes took off, disappeared in the smoky air. The remaining citizenry disappeared in caves and dugouts on Chungking's hillsides, where they sweltered in the hot afternoon...
...scores in that number three doubles match were 10-8; 9-7, and that just about represents the difference between the two squads. When the Crimson are able to insert a bit more punch in the tail end of their lineup, they ought to win against top-flight competition...
...motored bomber, of a type used by Russians fighting for Loyalist Spain. Dirty grey mist still dripped dismally off wing and windshield. Nineteen hours out of Moscow, with all the Atlantic behind him, he was tired. But New York City, his destination, was only five hours' flight ahead...
...spot on their map: Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, 700 miles short of New York, 3,900 miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands of flowers for the transatlantic heroes laid them down and went home...