Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty cheer went up from the seven hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon...
...hunted all over the field by a process server. Several times they passed within a few feet of each other but Pilot Turner, clad in unaccustomed overalls, went unrecognized despite his famed spiked mustache. At the last moment he stripped away the overalls, revealed his habitual fancy costume of sky-blue tunic (with his initials embroidered in silver), fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots, visored cap with silver "T"-and was off. Beating the rising sun across the Alleghenies, Pilot Turner came down at Columbus for fuel and nearly lost his mind when it took him 20 minutes...
...Scapa Society for the Prevention of Disfigurement in Town & Country. Fortnight ago the S. S. P. D. T. C. had its 4Oth anniversary. Stroking his graceful grey mustache. Lord Harewood made his annual report. His father-in-law's ministers had appointed a Select Committee of Sky Writing which decided that aerial advertising should be prohibited in the country and in towns of less than 20.000, permitted elsewhere. Son-in-law Harewood was strongly against any skywriting at all. On the subject of billboards and outdoor advertising. Lord Harewood was optimistic. Five years ago the Scapa Society drew...
...sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs,-''He Isn't the Marrying Kind" and "Isn't This a Night for Love"-attractive shipboard interiors, and photographic novelties like a shot of the sky with stars assembling themselves into a bar of music. Comment by Mordaunt Hall, onetime British Army officer who writes astonished cinema reviews for the New York Times: "One might hazard that it is a film in which the wizardry of the camera 'is the thing...
...World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined, may lie via the Azores...