Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one day this week, when the chatter about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
Technically under detention for landing on Irish soil without a passport, Gone Again Corrigan was this week as free as wire. And in Washington, where B. A. C. Chief Denis Mulligan was expected to decree some penalty for the outlaw flight there was a twinkling hint that whatever Corrigan had done was all right with Mulligan. Said Mr. Mulligan: "It's a great day in the history of the Irish people and we don't want to spoil their fun by talking about punishment...
Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...
Last week the augurs of Manhattan's Wall and Broad Streets, weary of watching for omens on ticker tapes, turned to their windows to see the propitious flight of a rare and happily named bird-a Bird of Paradise. The brilliant yellow, green, and red-brown bird had escaped from Paramount Aquarium Inc. (a downtown animal, bird and fish importing concern), winged its way over the financial district to 15 Broad Street, was finally captured at high noon...
...Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged as Rayonier Inc. During the fiscal year reported last week, it produced 204,000 tons...