Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest anyone think that getting married in an airplane is a publicity stunt peculiar to the 20th Century, Sportsman Pilot for August (out last week; published an article, "Matches Made in the Heavens,'' proving that the aerial wedding stunt is something like 100 years old. Publicly-loving couples of the 19th Century used to get married in balloons decked with satin, festooned with ribbons and banners. Historians of these phenomena are Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, Manhattan bibliophile and only important woman collector of aeronauticana, and Harry Bischoff Weiss, associate editor of the American Book Collector...
...section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph Belknap, worked out of three bases. Last August Watkins was drowned when his kayak capsized but his party carried on under his aide, John R. Rymill. Using no aircraft except sounding balloons (Lindbergh will do the aerial job) both these expeditions have made exhaustive weather studies which will be completed this summer. Early reports have come drifting into Pan American's Manhattan office. Some preliminary findings...
...Prevention of Disfigurement in Town & Country. Fortnight ago the S. S. P. D. T. C. had its 4Oth anniversary. Stroking his graceful grey mustache. Lord Harewood made his annual report. His father-in-law's ministers had appointed a Select Committee of Sky Writing which decided that aerial advertising should be prohibited in the country and in towns of less than 20.000, permitted elsewhere. Son-in-law Harewood was strongly against any skywriting at all. On the subject of billboards and outdoor advertising. Lord Harewood was optimistic. Five years ago the Scapa Society drew up a code for outdoor...