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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hop Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Two Pilots. Martin Jensen, second prize Dole Pacific flyer, and Bartlett Stephens, acting superintendent of the San Francisco Municipal Airport, started a short hop at San Francisco. Down the runway roared their plane. She crow hopped along, got up in the air, fell off on a wing. Jensen, scared, hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Passenger. Fred Warren Green, Michigan's Governor, proudly held Ticket No. 100,000 for a flight from Detroit to Cleveland on the regular run of the Stout Air Lines. Last year he used ticket No. 50,000 on the same line.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Trans-Atlantic South | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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