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...Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight line. They were confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hyphen Dash | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Paris Joseph Lebrix (former flying partner of Dieudonne Coste) and Marcel Doret, famed stunt flyer, tuned up their Dewoitine monoplane The Hyphen for an eastward flight around the world in four hops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pretold Story | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Machinist Friedrich Garbe, asking that he might become Friedrich Garbe-Emden. President von Hindenburg ruminated long, but last week the enabling decree was signed. Not only machinists Garbe-Emden and Junk-Emden, but any other survivors of the crew of the gallant cruiser who so desire may now legally hyphen-Emdenize their names "as a title of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk-Emden | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...interests of giving Calvin Coolidge his deserts you should have left the hyphen out of that last word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...name is Porter-Porter," she emphasized, "-with a hyphen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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