Word: flights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something about the gangling, towheaded kid impressed Wiley Post that day in 1933. It was in Tulsa, and the one-eyed veteran pilot was riding high on the fame of his solo flight around the world in the famed Winnie Mae in 186 hours and 49 minutes. Flyer Post gave the kid a piece of the Winnie Mae's fabric, and even autograptfed it for him. Said young Bill Odom brashly: "I'm gonna fly around the world myself some...
...than Post) in 73 hours 5 minutes (113 hours, 44 minutes less than Post). His time was also five hours 50 minutes faster than the previous round-the-world speed record, which he had set in April in the same plane, over virtually the same course, accompanied by a flight engineer and Penmaker Reynolds...
...Flight of the loyalist Paraguayan government, president and cabinet, before a robel advance which took possession of two airports, was reported by Argentinian sources last night. President Higinie Morinigio was supposed to have set up his capital 130 miles further down the Paraguay River...
When Congress chopped the frayed mooring cable of OPA a year ago, there was a good deal of screeching around the big balloon of the U.S. economy. Harry Truman had already tossed out the ballast of wage controls. The cable was about to part anyhow. The first flight without controls soon made even 1940 prices look like something out of great-grandmother's album of souvenirs...
...shoot at his stomach; show him you're tougher than he is," advised one kid-criminal. Said another, describing a police interrogation: "He picked up a slab of leather with a heel on it and he started hitting me with it, and he socked me down a flight of stairs...