Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of any new route. As thrice before, Pan American received it in full measure last week when Lindbergh piloted a Sikorsky amphibian from Miami 1,200 mi. over water to Cristobal, C. Z., inaugurating a new seven-day mail service from New York to Buenos Aires. The Caribbean hop cuts four days from the route previously used via Belize, Tela, Managua, David and Panama City. The new schedule calls for at least 1,000 mi of flight...
Reconnaissance began at once. Small groups took the air to learn the countryside, to spot enemy encampments. Next day larger squadrons rose out of Mather Field to smash Southern Pacific R. R. yards, to destroy bridges and warehouses and ammunition dumps, to hop over fields and fences, highways and houses, to harass the invaders with bomb and bullet...
...herald Manhattan's aviation show last week a squadron of planes was to caracole down the Hudson River from Albany, duplicating Glenn Hammond Curtiss' pioneer long-distance water hop (May 29, 1910). Inclement winds, snow flurries and fogs prevented such sideshow. Thus the show opened on a minor note. It continued so. Attendance was good, buying niggling. This pleased the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce heads, who had refused to coöperate with Aviator's Post No. 743 of the American Legion, organizers of the exhibition. The War flyers believed that enough aviation manufacturing and sales groups...
...Vagabond, always a hop, skip and jump ahead of his competitors--which may or may not account for his wandering predilections--is already casting a speculative eye toward the future. Not too far, for the matters of the moment have an unpleasant habit of intruding themselves between the time when he can again meander in a carefree manner over the well-greased boardwalks of the Yard to flounder at the feet of learning. And not too near. The genial scout too willingly holds close to his heart the vicissitudes of his young proteges these bleak days of January...