Word: mineola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrère & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...
...Answer, after only one practice flight. They unexpectedly ran out of gas after 10 hrs., tried to land through a mist, crashed. Ashcraft was killed, Miss Gentry badly hurt. Her first and continuous cries after the smash were for "Bill." "Bill" was William Ulbrich, at whose mother's Mineola home she lived. He, at the time, was just overhead flying for the record with Pilot & Mrs. Martin Jensen in their Bellanca Three Musketeers. While Miss Gentry lay in the hospital and Pilot Ashcraft was at an undertaker's, the Three Musketeers flew on, on; stayed up 70½ hrs., when their...
...April 14, 1927, the Curtiss Flying Service Inc. broke its record of faultless performance. Pilot John Parke Andrews, Passengers Mary Seaman and Carl C. Stoll Jr., were killed in an accident at Mineola, L. I. Last week, Carl C. Stoll ST., of Louisville, Ky., filed suit for negligence against the Curtiss Flying Service, Inc., the first legal action of its kind in the history of New York courts. At the same time, Illinois courts were concerned with a novel phase of flying. Mrs. Gertrude B. Weingarten, mother of 6-year-old R. Paul Weingarten Jr., asked Justice Adolph Joseph Sabath...
...past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury at Mineola...