Word: hillig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with red wings, the name Liberty and the crossed flags of Denmark and U. S. on its side. The Danish flag stood for youthful Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
Once before, in 1929, Photographer Hillig tried to go home in a blaze of glory and bought passage on the Graf Zeppelin. But somebody blundered and at the last moment Mr. Hillig found himself left out. He made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf from sailing with- out him, finally sued for $100,000. The case was settled out of court, and no announcement made. But Mr. Hillig allowed his friends to believe that he collected $25,000, a sum which he later spent in having the Bellanca built. A different story is told...
...middle-aged German photographer named Otto Hillig and a youthful Danish farmer-turned-aviator named Holger Hoiriss flew in a Bellanca last week from New York to St. John, N. B.?and the 1931 season of transatlantic flying was officially opened. They settled down to await another break in the weather for their hop to Denmark; in Hillig's words, "just a couple of immigrants going home." Few days after the "immigrants" start, beauteous Socialite Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded...