Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparatively few people in the U. S. who are in a hurry to fly across the Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island...
...American has flown some 60,000,000 miles above water-3,000,000 across the Pacific, a considerably more arduous trip (see p. 44) than across the Atlantic. While its rivals are out practicing it thinks it can relax till Boeing finishes the first of six 72-passenger Clippers (biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail...
Howard Hughes's plane is owned by his own Hughes Aircraft Co. He will pay the entire cost of the trip, about $5,000, himself. Only connection of this private venture with the New York World's Fair is that he is the Fair's aeronautical adviser...
...saloonkeeper who became a preacher after his saloon, ''Old 410" (No. 410 East Douglas Street, Wichita), was smashed by Carrie Nation on one of her first rampages, Gerald Winrod was obscure until 1935 when, after a trip to Germany, he blossomed out as proprietor of the Capitol News & Feature Service of Washington, D. C., alleged by proletarians to be financed by German Nazi money and watched over by the German Embassy. Through The Defender (organ of Winrod's "Defenders of the Christian Faith"), which now claims 110,000 circulation, and his own big personal mailing list...
...bought for $900 at an auction six years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...