Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America's Good Neighbor who wants to show Latin Americans that she is not only Good, but the Very Best. This week, to Rio de Janeiro, in seven 23-ton bombers, flew 56 Army fliers on a 6,000-mile, four-stop good-will flight to salute Senhor Vargas...
...himself is recognized as the greatest technician on the alto sax in all the surrounding territory. His "Flight of a Bumble Bee" is often done so fast that it gets done about two seconds before the people at end of the hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love...
Most interesting to the 14 passengers on the inaugural flight was a stop they made, in a cut in the Burma jungle just outside the China border. There, miles from civilization of any sort, they found a community of 15 U. S. experts, their families, nearly 1,000 Chinese workers, living in a modern town with electric lights, running water, bungalows, playgrounds, and a $4,000,000 plant of U. S.-owned Central Aircraft Co. which will produce fighting planes to help China...
...Royal" in the drawings might be the carrier Glorious: she is certainly not Ark Royal, which has a full flight deck. The escorting battleship, aside from being in an unlikely position (aft of the carrier instead of ahead, shielding her), resembles no known British ship (her two masts carry big fire-control tops at the same level...
...planes which make such flying possible. But the author's enthusiasm alone is more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling misapprehensions, has clearly suggested a seeing and reading of a world no groundling can know, has need neither...