Word: richey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louise Thaden, Helen MacCloskey, Nancy Harkness were the original three. When Pilot Harkness resigned to marry, Mrs. Omlie hired Helen Richey. Last week, another aide was appointed, Pilot Blanche Noyes...
...first woman transport pilot was Ruth Nichols, who two years ago flew passengers regularly between New York and Boston. Not until last week, however, did any woman fly the U. S. airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
Died. Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, 29, stunt flyer, holder with Helen Richey of the women's refueling endurance record; when her airplane crashed rounding a pylon in a 50-mile race at the Dayton National Women's Air Meet; in Vandalia, Ohio...
Down out of a squally sky one morning last week coasted an oil-streaked airplane to land on Miami's Municipal Airport. Out jumped two grinning occupants, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis and Helen Richey. For ten days-while an Armenian archbishop was being murdered, a train collision was killing 200 persons in France, a blizzard was sweeping the East, George Dunlap was winning his eighth midwinter golf tournament, a Rumanian premier was being assassinated, the Metropolitan Opera was opening, Jockey Jack Westrope was riding his 300th winner-they had been flying around in circles to set a new women...
Strolling with his Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey for the first time in four years without secret service agents, Citizen Herbert Hoover found much to interest him. A taxi driver offered them a free ride anywhere. "You know," said Secretary Richey, "we had not had a chance to go out and see the town. . . . Many of the old mansions that he knew have gone. We looked at the Rockefeller Center Development...