Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying boat was the huge Dornier DO-X which took off from Rio de Janeiro for Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...
...while puzzled Chinese were trying to realize the trouble in the South, even more violent war broke out to the northward. The "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping...
Last week five cutters of the U. S. Coast Guard put out from Pacific ports in the U. S. and plied northward. Aboard each, the ship's musicians were prepared to play their most amusing sonatas not for the entertainment of their comrades, but over the ship's sides and across the Arctic wastes...
...Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will now fly out of Argentina and Uruguay-Pan American Grace Airways over the Andes and northward via the West Coast, and Pan American Airways northward directly up the East Coast, over the NYRBA route...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...