Word: hoppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circles" and was given the finance portfolio. He cabled at once to University Hall for a year's leave of absence, which was granted. That was early in September. Late in the same month his government was defeated in parliament, and he was turned out of office. Did he hop off on a year's tour of the world, with pay? He did not. He returned to Cambridge, and wistfully offered himself up for humbled course work...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
...airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation...
...atmosphere at a big airport is always charged with some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night...
...Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...