Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME stands corrected. The Mercury Air Tour begins on July 14 when passengers sail from Manhattan on the S. S. Tuscania. At London they will take plane for Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfort, Nuremberg, Munich, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Paris-finally sailing for the U. S. on Aug. 25. Total cost of the tour will...
...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...weeks ago (TIME, April 23) there was a pause in the criss-cross race which Lady Sophie Heath (Sir James' wife) was having with Lady Mary Bailey (Sir Abe's wife). Lady Sophie was down in Cairo, fuming at British officials because they had cautiously padlocked her plane and refused to let her fly on to London. Lady Mary was lounging nervously in Tabora, a Central African native village, recovering from injuries and waiting for her wealthy baronet to send her a "Moth" to replace the one whose motor had stalled and which had catapulted her into this...
...Mary hovered over the landing field at Cape Town, almost afraid to come down and hear that her rival had reached London and the record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical rivalry, she started...
...fate of the flyers if they ever fall unprotected into the hands of their admirers is to be doubted. Large portions of Lindbergh's plane disappeared under the onslaught of the souvenir-hunters, and whether the attack would have spared him is not easy to say. But the welcome is sincere, if enthusiastic, and if they are careful to stay under police guard they will survive to tell many thrilling tales about American greetings...