Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time constant attendants upon Edward and Mrs. Simpson made off to England as soon as they could and last week "were holding their ground. Candidate for honors as ''the Englishman who most dislikes Mrs. Simpson" is the detective who was assigned to escort her on her flight to France. He rode in a speeding, zigzagging Buick for some 23 hours with the exasperated, nerve-racked American whose lover was about to abdicate, and who kept telling the detective he was a stupid Scotland Yard flatfoot, had not been smart enough to enable her to give reporters the slip...
...financial flight which was thus arrested in mid-career began late in 1935 when Neville, who first had police trouble in 1926, met grey-haired, respectable Miss Cecilia M. Bainton, a popular music teacher in the Boston schools. It was not long before Neville had Miss Bainton lending her name to The Bainton Associates, Inc., which purported to be an investment trust paying 25% returns monthly. Hypnotic, honest-looking Neville convinced his clients that as a Wall Street wizard he could make this profit possible by trading their money in stocks. Mr. Neville further convinced everyone of his good faith...
...nine years from Jan. 1, 1928 to Jan 1 1937 there were 55 wrecks of scheduled U. S. passenger airliners bringing death to 181 passengers, or one tor every 2,000,000 miles of flight. Best year was 1933, when airlines flew 21,700,000 passenger-miles per fatality. Worst accident year on record for U. S. railroads was 1907, when they killed 647 passengers while running 27,700,000,000 passenger-miles. This was 42,800,000 passenger-miles per fatality or about twice as good as the air's best record. In 1936, though the lines equaled...
...Modern flight," says FORTUNE, dates from about the spring of 1935, when airlines standardized their operations manuals...
Nothing proved the mastery of Mussolini in Italy more completely than the way in which he managed to dominate Balbo, loading him with the rank of Air Marshal in reward for his Century of Progress flight, embracing him publicly while ecstatic Romans huzzahed, and then packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister...