Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bimotored, all-metal plane, the Electra, a speedy airline job, then the Lockheed 12 and finally the 14, rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...
...smile all over its corporate face. Over its East Hartford, Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less per horsepower than the Allison, it could fit into small pursuit planes as snugly as a cartridge in a rifle breech...
...England, after two weeks of pursuit by British newspapermen, the Lindberghs found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
After twelve years Charles Lindbergh's social status will probably soon be decided. Either the pursuit of the public will drive him to lead an almost monastic life. abandoning the world which other men enjoy, or perhaps now at last hero worship will die a natural death. Some day soon he and his wife may try going to dinner and the theatre in Manhattan. If they are not hounded too much they may do it again and again. They may send their sons to U. S. schools like other boys. If that time comes, twelve long dark years...
...punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother...