Word: rodgers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that book that he said to his friends: "Find me a 'lady Lindbergh.' " Amelia Earhart was found. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Last week, she took Mr. Putnam for an air ride from New York to Pittsburgh. Landing at Rodger's Field, her plane struck an unmarked ditch, turned over, was wrecked. Pilot Earhart and Passenger Putnam suffered no injuries. Said Passenger Putnam: "The accident occurred through no fault of hers...
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After the late Commander John Rodger's flight to the Hawaiian Islands (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), the Navy brought him "over his own protest" to Washington, D. C., "for propaganda purposes," and allowed him to keep on flying though the condition of his eyes made him unfit for active service. "This resulted in this gallant officer's death in Philadelphia in a stall of his plane...
...Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...
...Lihue, on the island of Kauai, the men were given injections of morphine and put to bed in the dim alcoves of an ancient hotel to sleep the clock around. The Navy Department appointed Commander Rodgers Assistant Chief of the Aeronautics Bureau. In the U. S. thousands of mothers, reading of Mrs. Rodger's still, remarked: "Now will you wear your rubbers...