Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...
Last week a silver arrow darted suddenly from the East (Roosevelt Field, L. I.), not over 500 feet from the ground, curved gracefully around Mines Field, Los Angeles, settled gently upon the turf. The thing that over 150 patient watchers had been awaiting, trembling with mingled anticipation and dread, had happened. The weary, perilous miles from coast to coast had been covered in 24 hours and 51 minutes. This was 2 hours faster than it had ever been done before...
...tired men were helped from the plane. One was Captain C. B. D. Collyer, onetime air mail flyer, veteran of many a notable flight, who had unassisted and sleepless stuck to the stick all the way from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The other was Harry Tucker of Los Angeles, well-known sportsman, owner of the plane...
...Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly, U. S. Army, flew a Liberty-engined Fokker from Roosevelt Field to San Diego in 26 hours and 50 minutes. Last August this same Yankee Doodle, flown by Col. Arthur Goebel, made the crossing from Los Angeles, Calif., to Curtiss Field, L. I., in 18 hours and 58 minutes. He was aided by a tail wind much...
...previous loss was the military airplane business of Glenn L. Martin Co. It is moving to Baltimore...