Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profoundest silence lay over all Turkey like a pall of death. Not a train ran. Not a boat sailed. Not an airplane flew. Not a factory hummed. Not a siren shrieked, nor a whistle blew. Men neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...
Private Car. Mrs. James A. Stillman flew from Grand Anse, Quebec, to Pleasantville, N. Y., 450 miles. She has opened a charge account with the "Fairchild Aviation Corporation (Canadian) and will commute between her residences at $100 an hour...
...Long Island, a plane flew straight up; dropped straight down undamaged. But it was only a tiny model plane and its flying field was a wind tunnel. So sound seemed its performance, however, that officials of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., conservatives, reported that a life-size model will be built. The plane will have three, perhaps four, horizontal revolving wings. Its estimated rising speed will be 1,900 ft. per minute; forward speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail...
...competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge Gary. Mr. Schwab bought the broken down Bethlehem Steel Corp., and made it U. S. Steel's greatest competitor...
...flew west to Worcester, leaving the East Boston airport about 1.30 o'clock," he said. "The damage to houses and property was very evident from the air, especially along the railroad tracks up the Concord River valley, which we followed after leaving Worcester...