Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gunner Charles Gorman, who was shot down in Rumania during the war, was in a civilian plane crash last week. Returning from the Cleveland Air Races with a former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...
...tabloid Elmira (N.Y.) News was shutting up shop, and the publisher didn't sound a bit sorry. In his farewell Page One editorial, Robert J. Allen,* an Army flyer in World War I and a Marine flyer in No. II, heaved a luxurious sigh as he told...
Quite a Few. According to the rules laid down by the committee, neither of the duelists was to have the chance to cross-examine the other. But when Brewster was finished and Senator Ferguson asked Hughes if he had any questions, the flyer snapped: "Yes-200 to 500 of them." If the committee had not sensed it before, here was conclusive evidence that unexpectedly pugnacious Howard Hughes believed firmly in the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Senator Ferguson told him to put his questions in writing...
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...
Face Lifter. Extremely shy, Mrs. Dodge had no liking for publicity. One of the few times her name appeared in print was in 1926, when she spent $50,000 backing a French flyer and famed War I ace, Captain René Fonck, in a transatlantic flight that never came off. Another was in 1930, when she paid a record-high fine of $213,286 for failing to declare the full value of trunksful of clothes and jewelry that she brought home from France. She was still largely unknown when in 1938 a U.S. Treasury report showed...