Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Byrd and his crew of three crashed the America after their June 1927 transatlantic flight, the Byrd Foundation Committee laid the cornerstone for a monument to the flyer: a "sanctuary" for flyers of all nations and an orphanage for children of flyers...
...week-old third son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, self-exiled in England, was named Land Morrow Lindbergh-Land is the family name of Flyer Lindbergh's mother...
...Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow...
Michael Gregor, who built the first private Russian airplane, a modified Bleriot, in 1910 and sold it to Major Seversky's father. A War flyer, Gregor arrived in the U. S. in 1921, designed several planes including the Bird in which Charles Augustus Lindbergh taught his wife to fly. Gregor had a hand in the design of the Seversky amphibian, is currently freelancing...
Stag. Publisher of Stag, "A Magazine for Men," is Philip L. Tuchman, a substantial Manhattan capitalist taking a flyer. Mr. Tuchman stoutly maintains that Stag is not an imitation of Esquire, but the cover lettering of Stag is distinctly reminiscent and its first contents- divided between mildly scabrous cartoons and mannish text by folk like Hendrik Willem van Loon, Carleton Beals, Ernest Boyd, Jack Dempsey-were unmistakable. Stag is pocket-sized, costs...