Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin refused to call out his sit-downers until G. M. should promise in writing not to remove dies and machinery during negotiations. This General Knudsen would not do. At week's end negotiations collapsed. This week General Knudsen & staff commenced a "sitdown" of their own, General Martin flew to Washington to confer with Generalissimo Lewis...
...seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible Fleet Street newsorgans were in decorous conflagration. Blazed the London Sunday Referee...
...good idea of some few dozen European titled women all primed to become his Queen. The 41-year-old King liked best the pictures of 19-year-old Countess Johanna von Mikes, a Hungarian. The Portuguese broker chartered an airplane, retained the services of two chaperons and flew Countess Johanna to Tirana just in time for King Zog to have her for Christmas...
...only two ridges away from the San Fernando Valley. Apparently he either lost his way or badly misgauged his altitude. Unable to explain why he should have done either, United could only point out that it was the line's first accident in 13 months, during which it flew 125,000,000 passenger miles. Next day there were no cancellations in United planes, which flew as full as ever...
Director of Air Commerce Eugene Luther Vidal declared that reports that he is about to resign are "without foundation." United Air Lines' Hostess Helen Clark who normally flew in the wrecked plane but had stayed at home last week to nurse a sick father, resigned. Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association of America, declared: "U. S. airlines this year have transported a total of 1,140,000 passengers, of whom 45 lost their lives. . . . Translated into passenger miles, it is possible to fly in a scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h...