Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book was coherent to a remarkable degree and at times it dropped from the trite flight into Hollywood satire to the more timely type of social and political satire...
...Your Wings, in simple, first-person, instructor-to-student dialogue, Jordanoff told how to fly, prudently prefacing the course with lectures on the history of flying, aerodynamics and how to use a parachute. Through 27 chapters he guided the student off the ground, through rudimentary flight, and back to earth again; told him about motors, propellers, wing lift, etc. ; took off with him again for turns, climbs, glides, later for stalls and spins and aerobatics; sent him soloing; proceeding thence through discussions of "avigation," instruments, fuels, radio, accessories...
Declared Dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed aviatrix, lost 18 months ago in the Pacific; by a California court order; in Los Angeles. Day later a plaque was unveiled to her memory at Miami, where she started her last, world-girdling flight...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...
...history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...