Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Southern Cross flew on to New York and a rowdy reception at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Manhattan claimed the quartet as its heroes, ignored the suggestion of failure in the enforced stop in Newfoundland; saw only the glory in their achievement. From Washington hurried British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to extend the congratulations of his government...
...into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York to the Mexican capital.* Mexico was delirious with joy, not alone over the actual feat, but also because the pall of misfortune hanging over Mexican aviation had been pierced...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...
...neither controverted nor denied. We may accept now as settled the rights of the Senate. . . ." "Not One Scintilla" But President Hoover did not feel that everything was 'settled" He threw himself into the fray with the words: "The real issue in the Treaty is whether we shall stop competitive naval building . . . whether we shall spend an enormous sum in such a race . . and whether the present agreement gives us a substantial parity and proportionate strength...
...instructed the British mint, makers of Rumanian money, to stop work on the "King Mihai" series of which several million coins have been struck. The new Rumanian law of annulment (TIME, June 16) states that Carol's son Mihai was never King. As soon as possible busy Britains will start stamping "King Carol II" coins, printing "King Carol" postage stamps...