Word: moulineaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a celebration, people dislike to be told that they were celebrating an error. Newspapers that use the Associated Press service were temporarily jubilant last week because they published the following "scoop": "Paris, July 1.-(By A.P.)-Commander Richard Byrd's transatlantic monoplane America landed at Issy Les Moulineaux, near Paris, early this morning...
...fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
...France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding M. Monis, who later resigned...
...Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Marquis Pescara, Argentine engineer, stayed in the air more than five minutes in a helicopter...