Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve men* had spanned the North Atlantic in heavier-than-air machines: no woman had succeeded. Great interest, therefore, centered on the flight of Miss Amelia ("Lady Lindy") Earhart (TIME, June 11) when at length her trimotored Fokker Friendship left the water at Trepassey, Newfoundland, headed toward Britain. Would she disappear from sight, sharing the fate of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim ? Would she turn back as Viennese Lilli Dillenz had done? Would she be forced down as was Ruth Elder...
Last week, the students of the Experimental College issued a booklet telling all about the first year. It breathed enthusiasm: "minds set free," "intellectual success." Dr. Meiklejohn added a cautious note: "the College is too young to be judged." But, said he, "As a venture in friendship the College has succeeded beyond all question...
...Japan phrased by Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Said he last October, just as he was completing a visit of inspection over the country and its possessions: "We believe in Japan; we believe in her peaceful intentions; we believe in her courage, her patience, her faith and her loyal friendship for America...
...Friendship's departure had been shrouded in reticence by backers (principally Mrs. Frederick Guest, wife of a Britisher and daughter of Millionaire U. S. Senator Phipps of Colorado) and crew. Of the latter, the only well known professional aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted...
...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...