Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ready, assembled on the deck," wrote Lord Minto, "but no one appeared to represent the Bombay Government. We had expected an official reception. Our surprise was great when the pilot arrived with a message that the official landing had been canceled...
...Heaven, the divine Emperor of Japan, was returning from Grand Army Maneuvers with Sergeant Honda out in front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even...
...Taking of the Gry" and chats with his readers about one of his youthful exploits. As soon as he says, "I can tell you about the 'Gry' better than most people," he keeps his audience in a close and absorbing relationship until he and his companion, Teniento Bronnay, pilot their prize safely beyond the rocky, unused channel of Santa Barbara harbor...
President Roosevelt, the pilot, was, as Mr. Farley said, "very much overjoyed" at the victory of the New Deal, but Mr. Farley, the mechanic, was no less jubilant at the enormous momentum last fortnight's election had given his machine. How much momentum that was, was evident in the U. S. Senate. With their 69 seats the Democrats will have a majority in that body-even if they lose every Democratic Senator who comes up for re-election-until Jan. 3, 1939. Granting that Democrats are elected to the Senate from the eleven States of the Solid South...
Handsome, well-built, Donald Douglas at 42 looks younger than his years. He shuns crowds, prefers the company of a few old cronies. A mediocre pilot, he rarely flies his own planes but does most of his business traveling by regular airlines. His days off he spends yachting. His six-meter boat Gallant represented the U. S. in the last Olympics, and his schooner Endymion has been Pacific Coast champion for the past four years...