Word: planed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home from Addis and Harar with bloodshot-eyes, malaria and insomnia but in hearty spirits, Fox Movietone's Laurence Stallings bubbled of Ethiopian beauties "too proud to notice a white man," confirmed that at the first sound of an Italian bombing plane Ethiopian officers dive for the nearest Red Cross shelter. A prized Stallings snapshot shows the Ducal Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie's younger son Makonnen at Harar flying the Red Cross flag although not used for any Red Cross purpose...
...special engine had been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark he already holds (TIME, Sept. 23), he gave his plane...
...Newark, no one was aware of the Hughes flight until the plane swept down into the floodlights, shortly after midnight. When timers informed Pilot Hughes he had set a new record of 9 hr., 25 min., 10 sec., beating Colonel Roscoe Turner's 1934 time by 37 min. 47 sec., he shrugged: "I wanted to go to New York, so I tried to see how fast I could do it. I don't think there was anything sensational about...
Presently, at about 6:30 p. m., the plane landed at Memphis. Out got three passengers, and in got three more. Aboard too, climbed a new crew of three, including oldtime Pilot Jerry Marshall. At 7:03 p. m. The Southerner took off with 17 aboard, headed out over flat, sparsely-settled country toward Little Rock...
...Pilot Marshall radioed that all was well, the weather clear, the plane at 3,000 ft. Half hour later, with no further word, Memphis began calling, got no answer. Soon Little Rock reported The Southerner overdue. Frantically alarmed, American Airlines launched a search. Before it discovered anything, a farmer telephoned shocking news in from the hamlet of Goodwin...