Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Holiday Timken Jr., Harvard senior, son of the roller bearing maker, took his first flight in a $70,000 Ford tri-motor plane, the gift of his father...
Duration with weight; distance with weight: Dieudonne Costes and Paul Codos, in one flight, over Marseilles, flew 2,048 mi., in 18 hr. 1 min. with one gross ton of cargo in a Brequet with Hispano-Suiza motor...
...Flying Gypsies" is the title of a book dealing with the ten thousand mile vagabondage by air soon to be brought out by Putnam's. Its authors, the Vicomte and Vicomtess de Sibour are eveil now on a flight from Paris to the Kenya Colony on the East Coast of Africa where they have a ranch...
...from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last flight, a 500-mile air funeral over subArctic wastes to Nome, Alaska...
Death in its blind flight last week dipped close to William Howard Taft, then veered away, how far none knew. A combination of ailments which forced his resignation as Chief Justice rendered his condition serious, if not critical. His physicians held out scant hope for complete recovery...