Word: flyering
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...Colonel Lyman Timmerman, World War I flyer who once tried to reform Chicago police, is now trying the same job and having similar difficulties with Teheran's Metropolitan police force. Week after week the Council of Ministers promises Timmerman the direct powers he needs, but Parliament never gets around to the matter...
...Albany this week the storm mounted: New York unions berated the State Legislature for inviting Captain Eddie to address a joint session. An A.L.P. Assemblyman demanded a resolution that the invitation was not the legislature's endorsement of the flyer's views. But Eddie Rickenbacker went right ahead in his crusade...
Cinemactor Robert Taylor, 31, amateur flyer, joined the Naval Air Force in Los Angeles as a junior grade lieutenant, to train at Corpus Christi...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in London for "extraordinary heroism" on a bombing mission over France: Major Al Key, famed endurance flyer of 1935. (He and Brother Fred flew the "Ole Miss" for a record 653 hr. 34 min.) The Major flew his Flying Fortress straight at two enemy fighters, completed his mission, returned safely with a cannon-blasted ship...
From the Army came news that Ferry Pilot Douglas Corrigan, famed wrong-way flyer of 1938, had boarded a plane as a passenger, shortly discovered he was on the wrong plane, headed in the wrong direction...