Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back and forth they swept, between Los Angeles and San Diego. Every so often the Question Mark took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome...
...Clouds, air pockets, winds, days, nights. Dismayed by enormous puffs of fog the flyers left the seacoast, roared over a 60-mile circuit above Imperial Valley. They broke the U. S. record for re-fuelled flight. They broke the international re-fuelled flight records.* Shortly afterward fell the world's record for sustained flight (heavier-than-air machines).? There remained but two records to pass, that for sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines), and the distance record...
...Sustained flight (lighter-than-air machines); by the French dirigible Dixmudc. 118 hours...
...district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
Alcohol. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co.. controlled by Air Reduction Co. is the largest producer and distributor of industrial alcohol. Its products are used for fertilizers, motor fuel, lacquers, anti-freeze compounds. Last week, its dominant position was approached by Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corp., newly organized to acquire Orange Grove Refining Co., Seaboard Chemical Co., Industrial Chemical Mfg. Co., Rossville Co., Federal Products...