Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Acosta, 50, famed transatlantic flyer of 1927, was arrested for sleeping in a Bronx subway station. Charged with disorderly conduct, he got a suspended sentence when he pleaded guilty...
...them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes's own design...
Last week, the hatchet work was revived; Shipbuilder Kaiser and Flyer Hughes stormed into Washington. They had good reason: WPB was casting a cold and fishy eye on the three-plane contract, had a good mind to cancel...
...When he left five days later he looked like the most important Presidential possibility in the Republican Party to Southern California party members. If he has not completed the capture of California by the time he leaves San Francisco for New York on Saturday, this is my last flyer in political prognostication...
...aviation's wartime boom has brought an alarming growth of reckless flying-some of it by pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next...