Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Elizabeth does not fly because she is afraid of becoming airsick. George VI dislikes flying and the Cabinet does not want him in the air. As a result, any air trip of the King becomes a national event and the King's pilot-Captain of the King's Flight-holds one of the softest jobs in England...
...stepped into his scarlet and blue twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. From Sandringham he flew 60 miles to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to inspect, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of the nation's military aviation colleges. Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham. Said British dispatches afterward: "The nation breathed easier tonight when it learned over the wireless that King George had completed safely in blustery conditions his return flight...
Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
...Charles Clifford Bane is 46, married, has one son and a shoe business in Washington, D. C. Until last week, when he enplaned (see p. 16) on an Eastern Airliner for the 80-minute trip from Newark to Washington, he had never been in an airplane before...
...could make four knots with her engines, six with her sails in a good breeze. But under sail she could scarcely be managed, and her engines used five tons of coal a day. Owned by Bennett, she had been commissioned by the Navy. Bennett paid the expenses of the trip although naval officers were in command and even the correspondents sailed as U. S. Navy seamen. Naval engineers shook their heads over the Jeannette, reported skeptically that "so far as practicable" she had been fitted for Arctic service. No naval vessel was on hand to do her honor...