Word: mollison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening after Wiley Post's homecoming, Floyd Bennett Field was thronged again. A Sunday crowd was there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
Capt. James A. Mollison, the Scotsman who flew the North Atlantic "uphill" (east-to-west) last year, flew from Lympne to Brazil in 3 days...
Meanwhile Lady Bailey, seasoned pilot, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...
Hardy Mrs. Mollison. Current idols of British hero-worshippers are the flying bride-&-groom, James Allan Mollison and Amy Johnson Mollison. Both have made distinguished record flights, notably his London-Cape Town and his recent solo westward across the Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three...
...cabled Kaye Don, who last fortnight acquired a U. S. bride but lost the backing of his patron, Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Wakefield. Chairman of C. C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd. (lubricants), the aging Lord has for years subsidized Britons speeding by air, land and sea. Far-hopping James Allan Mollison and the late Sir Henry Segrave were his proteges. Now he thinks the publicity not worth the outlay...