Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared dead. The Duchess of Bedford, 71; "on or since March 22, 1937"; in London. She seemingly perished in the North Sea while on a pleasure flight...
...insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther and Organizers Robert Kanter and J. J. Kennedy, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and a onetime football player (University of Dayton), led his friends up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted, "You're on Ford property. Get the hell off here...
...Paris (Paramount) mine the photographically rich vein of winter sports which, extensively explored by European producers, has heretofore been neglected by Hollywood. On her first trip abroad, in flight from a tedious suitor in New York, Fashion Designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) picks up two personable Americans in a Paris bar. One is Gene Anders (Robert Young) who hoping to gratify his inclination for casual romance, suggests a trip to Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon...
Amid the general chorus of approval there were several bitter notes. Snapped Amy Johnson Mollison, sailing from Manhattan where she had been training for the flight: "It is not a stunt flight, and I don't agree with your Commerce Department ruling. They are very far behind the times. . . . The ruling is as good as saying that flying is not safe." Minister Cot managed to remain gracious, denied that he would try to arrange a race to Paris from Buenos Aires or Canada...
Wrote Col. Lindbergh to his friend, Banker Thomas W. Lamont, who made the principal speech at a banquet in Manhattan on the anniversary: "I am embarrassed to think of you being asked to devote your time and energy to preparing a speech for the anniversary of my flight to Paris. I believe that the past should not be turned into an obligation for the future; and ceremonies for celebrating past events almost invariably become an obligation for those taking part in them...