Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an air base in China New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson reported that a U.S. flyer, cutting across the mountains to Chinese Turkestan, had taken his plane up through a soupy overcast to 31,000 ft. Said the unnamed pilot: "I was surprised to find I was flying parallel with a mountain, between 2,000 and 3,000 ft. below its peak...
Amelia Earhart, lost in the Pacific in July, 1937, rose dubiously in the words of a Marshall Islands native: "A Jap trader named Ajima told me that an American woman flyer came down between Jaluit and Ailinglapalap Atolls. She was picked up by a Jap fishing boat [and] taken back to Japan...
...spite of the increasing intensity of aerial warfare, no U.S. flyer has yet been able to beat Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's alltime record of 26 kills in World...
Among Pop's pilots was the French flyer-novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Flight to Arras), a veteran of 13,000 flying hours. The physical strain of stratosphere flying finally proved too much for 44-year-old Saint-Exupéry. He tried gamely to keep on but finally had to give it up. It is a young man's racket...
Last week he took a flyer of his own in theater operating. With Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...