Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for her maiden flight she rose before dawn, went with her husband to an airfield in Detroit. With famed Balloonist Edward J. Hill they took off at 5 a. m., drifted nine hr., came down with a bump in a field near Thamesville, Ont. 58 mi. away. Bruised when her companions landed on top of her, Balloonist Piccard was more concerned about an angel cake she had taken along. "I really don't know what happened to it," she said. "We didn't have a chance to eat it. I guess it got crushed...
Again, although France abandoned the rigid airship after the loss of the Dixmude, and England followed suit when the R101 fell in flames in France on its maiden voyage to India, Germany, the home of old Count Zeppelin and the country where this type of craft first saw the light of day, has been going ahead steadily and has established a remarkable safety record. The innumerable long distance flights of the Graft Zeppelin without a single serious accident, and the fact that the German-built Los Angeles is the only ship that has survived the vagaries of American airship commanders...
...Thomas, a poor man's horse, belongs to Alexander Gordon of Louisville, onetime trainer for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt and Cartoonist Bud Fisher. Sir Thomas finished his two-year-old season a "maiden," never having won a race. But had he not jumped a path on the course at the Futurity, observers say he would have beaten Singing Wood. Form-players can justify their fancy for Sir Thomas by recalling that Sir Barton in 1919 and Broker's Tip last year entered the Derby as ''maidens...
...Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell for $6500, was recently purchased by Leopold Stokowski, of the Philadelphia Symphony...
...then jailed, but escapes with the aid of Lydia, the beautiful Indian maiden and travels to Washington, where he enlists the aid of a sympathetic Indian Commissioner, and by making his case a test issue, obtains a new deal for the oppressed redskin...