Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Panama, down the west coast of South America, over the Andes, and into El Palomar airport at Buenos Aires last week roared six of the U. S. Army's new flying fortresses-four-motored bombers each manned by eight men. They had made the 5,225-mile flight in record time (34 hr. 14 min.) with only one stop at Lima, Peru. Purpose of the longest "good will" flight in Army aviation records was to represent the U. S. at the inauguration of Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz (see p. 24)-conveniently scheduled three weeks after the good...
...Italian good will flight had been a mild fiasco. To avoid appearing Fascist-minded, the Brazilian Government gave the fliers a cool welcome. Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires Critica, chief anti-Fascist organ of the Argentine press, decried the flight so bitterly that Argentina was omitted from the itinerary...
...contrast the U. S. good will flight was a huge success. The planes reached Buenos Aires, got a warm welcome from President Ortiz, awed his capital by flying over it in formation during the inauguration. Cried the delighted Critica, under an eight-column streamer headline designed to suggest the U. S. flag: "Welcome to the aviators of Democracy. . . . None has bombarded cities; none has spread horror and death among women and children . . .nothing connected with their splendid trip is in any way suggestive of the spirit that has brought others fliers to these shores...
...Army plane, chased by other Soviet craft and fired at by Soviet frontier guards, skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
Things have come to a pretty pass when a large noise, prowling the streets, can lure susceptible students from their labors to fill them with Propaganda and Prejudice, while last night the more rational appeal of public placards should go unheeded. Turn back, turn back, Oh Time in thy flight...