Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent death of Edwin C. Musick, pilot of the airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...
Lane outlined the two main battles that other American Student Union chapters must flight:--for educational facilities, and for academic freedom. Although Harvard conditions warrant no such battle, Lane warned the organization against becoming a mere discussion group, stating that discussion is only a prelude to action...
...League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World. To publicize the project and to get this sympathy backed by the $5,000,000 hard cash necessary for its completion, the Dominican Government last spring, before it fell to warring with Haiti, announced a "Goodwill Flight'' to 52 cities in 26 countries from Argentina to Canada...
Cuba heartily joined the goodwill flight plan, added three airplanes and her best flyers to the single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...
...dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...