Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...Hart-never topped since he observed in 1925 that''beans could get no keener reception in a beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!"-still maintains the lightest touch in the business. As usual, the Rodgers melodies are fresh as a May wind, artful and surprising as the flight of a barn swallow. George Balanchine's ballets, particularly a long dream dance, continue to set marks for more serious masters to shoot...
...Municipal Auditorium last December, 1,200 members of the Union Pacific R. R.'s Old Timers' Club (20 years or more with the U. P.) played host at an impressive golden wedding banquet for President Carl Raymond Gray and Mrs. Gray. Also in attendance were 27 top-flight U. S. railroadmen headed by President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, and 150 bigwigs from other businesses. Toastmaster at the banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell Harriman to succeed...
...housing the medals, sombreros, plaster statuets and other memorabilia of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose Paris flight was financed by St. Louis citizens...
...down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph Bourne. Herbert Croly, the late poet Hart Crane. But unfortunately for the reader, when Waldo Frank approaches the appreciative he verges on the mystical, puts his audience to sleep or to flight. And his practical suggestions for clearing the jungle are likely to strike his hearers as more furious than sound: "I know a way out, if you want one. Let the conduits of 'information' and 'news' be placed in the hands of philosophers and men of science...