Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coste & Bellonte flight; the Gandhi movement; the U. S. Drought; the discovery of Planet X (Pluto); the return of King Carol. I. N. S.-November's election; Coste & Bellonte; South American revolutions; return of King Carol; Italian earthquake. Editor & Publisher carried the survey further, asked editors to imagine what might be the "sweetest" news break of 1931 (barring death and disaster). Some imaginings: Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of Scripps-Howard papers, Paul Patterson, president of Baltimore Sun, Ik Shuman, executive editor of Paul Block newspapers, and others: Affirmation by the Supreme Court of Judge Clark's decision invalidating...
...Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army air corps experimenters at Washington...
...never drinks. He has been a clown, an animal trainer, an acrobat; he worked from burlesque into comic leads in Broadway shows. Most celebrated of his comic assets are his folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner...
Delaware River where within ten minutes the plane darts from Delaware to New Jersey to Pennsylvania and back to New Jersey. The last leg of the northbound flight raises the grey spires of Princeton before the plane drops down on the smoke-plumed Jersey meadows at Newark Airport...
...first southbound flight from Newark Airport carried 26 pouches of mail and one passenger to Baltimore, who paid $12.15. Through fare to Atlanta...