Word: irelander
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...little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make a final study of weather charts before turning...
When John D. Ryan's father migrated from Ireland in 1847, two years after the great "potato" famine there, the belief current abroad was that the U. S. was paved with gold. The father found, of course, no gold covering the Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper...
Fretful, impatient, three Germans paced the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin, Ireland. Their plane was poised for flight, pointed westward, over the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, toward America. Anxious, disappointed, obviously annoyed at delays, they waited for favorable weather reports, for they meant to be the first to fly successfully from the Old World...
Some days previously, without a word even to their kin, the three had flown to Ireland from Berlin's great centre of aeronautics, Tempelhof. Thermos bottles filled with coffee and a loaded revolver formed their only baggage. . . . "We land on Mitchell Field or heaven...
...there a cautious transatlantic flier, then his name is Capt. Hermann Koehl, pilot of this German expedition. In this same ship, the Bremen, he started for America late last summer, got over Ireland, found the hazards impossible to negotiate, and turned back home to try again some happier...