Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsed, the radio play presented, among other scenes, one in which Soviet officials debated whether they would be justified in sending the Red icebreaker Krassin at great expense to rescue General Umberto Nobile and other survivors of the Italian polar dirigible flight...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
...dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards at a speed which completely belies his 52 years (75 yd. in 8 sec.). Prime product of his teaching was the late famed Florence Mills...
...ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Publisher William Randolph Hearst went up in a Stinson monoplane for what was said to be his first flight since the early days of barnstorming aviators...
...francs. The awards committee had deliberated long over the name of Coste and Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, both transatlantic flyers. They chose Coste, they said, because he already held five world records. Other kudos: Frank Monroe Hawks, best U. S. flyer, for his transcontinental speed flights; Amy ("Johnnie") Johnson, best woman flyer, for her London-Australia solo flight; Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's best dirigible pilot. None but Coste's was a cash award...