Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayton. When he whipped over Mitchel Field on Long Island, just as the sun was setting, he was seven hours, 45 minutes (elapsed time) out of March Field, 2,400 miles away, and only 17 minutes slower than Howard Hughes's record non-stop transcontinental flight in a racing plane...
...York Times stopped on a crowded, rutted road outside Figueras one day last week to inspect several truckloads of notable refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
Last week young Physiologist John West Thompson left his bustling Fatigue Laboratory at Harvard, bundled up his new haematometharmozograph, and went to Kansas City. Reason: he wanted to convince the Association of Military and Civilian Flight Surgeons that his ingenious device could efficiently measure fear reactions of pilots...
...Thompson suggested that flight surgeons describe plane crashes to prospective pilots taking the test. A candidate who gets a glowing report from the haematometharmozograph would be a poor risk, for he is likely "to become unnerved when under stress...
...heart of Baltimore's tenderloin is a flashy basement honkytonk called the Oasis. Passers-by are invited to "walk down one flight and save nothing," enter "the worst night club in America," witness "the lousiest shows in the world...