Word: stays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots had to stop work. The soarers sent down messages announcing that they were "tough hombres," would stay up 300 hours...
Refuse which they had to drop out of the ship caught and accumulated on the tail, however. Came an hour when the Angeleno wabbled so badly she could not stay under her refueling plane (piloted by Paul Whittier, local millionaire). The "tough hombres" descended, went to a hospital, slept. When they awoke, bedside microphones were ready to let them talk to their public...
...Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay at least 3,000 feet above cities and crowds. Concert-zooming pilots will get their licenses revoked...
...throat, smashes his face. Down goes Louie, then up with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade, so you will learn it all the faster...
Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...