Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasoup fog blew in over New Jersey one day last week, just after Pilot Albert Vale and his wife had taken off from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship...
After the homeward voyage from Little America was over, it was decided to put the now famous ship on exhibition. She was outfitted with the most interesting of the treasures brought back from the South Pole, and some things were added which it was thought would better enable the world to appreciate the life and work of the men during the two-year adventure...
Gently, Magistrate Brodsky told Nathan Goldberg there was nothing to be done. Goldberg stumbled homeward, wailing: "She is through with life. She is buried, do you hear! She can never come home no more...
...solemn test flight was conducted, with the expert counsel of General Superintendent William H. Collins, who became pigeon-conscious when launching ships for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Two dozen racing homers from the coops of Tire-Builder Frank Eisentrout were released in the dock. They flapped gladly, promptly homeward. So impressive was the demonstration that the number of christening pigeons was raised...
Upon Governor Roosevelt played the pressspotlight throughout the conference. Other Governors treated him as if he already had the Democratic nomination. Homeward bound, he stopped off in Ohio to greet potent Democrats in that State. Political speculation in the press, outrunning the facts, began to turn on a Roosevelt running mate for the national ticket. Last week's announcement of Col. Edward Mandell House, oldtime Wilsonian adviser, that he was for the New York Governor for President, seemed to put Mr. Roosevelt closer than ever before to the White House...