Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book. Last week her fun consisted of flying blind through fog while she listened to musical broadcasts and exchanged witticisms with her husband by radio. Some 18 hours after the start of the 2,400-mile flight, she landed safely at Oakland, Calif, in her red Lockheed Vega monoplane. After powdering her nose and pushing back her tousled hair, Miss Earhart confided to newshawks that she felt "swell." Back in Honolulu Husband Putnam made better copy by saying: "Myself, I'd rather have a baby...
Probably the world's most hazardous peacetime occupation is that of test pilot for a company making military aircraft. Lately when famed Builder John K. ("Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...
...work was in disorder, just like his life. He wrote his pages in fits and starts, and then left them alone for months at a time." He had a high opinion of his own ability, which was not shared by his great rival, Playwright-Poet Lope de Vega. Biographer Tomas thinks Lope de Vega was responsible for the pirated parody of Don Quixote which was published before Cervantes' own conclusion...
Last week Colonel Lindbergh undertook his first extended flight in a year, taking his wife with him. In his big red Lockheed Vega monoplane they set out from New ark for a routine inspection of T. & W. A.'s route to the coast. To spare them selves annoyance they were more cordial than usual to newshawks and cameramen. Said the Colonel: "Well, I think the pictures you've been taking were terrible so I suppose it will be better to pose." At Pitts burgh luck was with the Lindberghs. Water in the fuel tank killed the engine...
...Treasury. He fished for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920, fought hard for it in 1924. But never has this versatile, long-nosed politician held elective office. His California campaign was his first attempt in his own behalf. In The Blue Streak, his three-year-old Lockheed Vega, piloted by Capt. Harry Ashe, he toured Northern California. He harangued State societies in & around Los Angeles. Typical McAdoodle...