Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological histories were distinct...
...uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross the Mediterranean to the west coast of Morocco, fly down the coast to the shoulder of Senegal, thence inland across the French Sudan, nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training, at Istres. Like Balbo's men, they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take...
...committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis, plump manager of the New York Herald Tribune, Amon Giles Carter, potent Texas Democrat and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond News-Leader, Charles R. Butler, president of the Inland Daily Press Association...
...field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised...
...Planes can land safely on the inland ice so long as bright sunlight makes ripple-shadows on the surface. But on hazy days pilots must beware, as ice and sky merge, leaving no horizon...