Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was great fussing and cussing over the delayed arrival of bombs. The warming sun fretted men. It softened the sausage of ice in the river. The ice chittered, crumbled, tumbled down the river, leaving the bombers no work to do. Maj. Gen. James Edmond Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps, detailed three bombers and four observation planes to Fort Lincoln, S. Dak., to wait there for shipments of bombs...
Three weeks ago the worst crash in U. S. air experience occurred at Newark, N. J. A Ford transport operated by Colonial Airways as a sightseeing bus smashed into a freight car. Thirteen passengers were killed instantly. A 14th died quickly. Only the pilot, Lou Foote, remains, bashed up, in a Newark hospital (TIME, March...
...antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley is much more a hit by virtue of the much-played air, "Cream in Your Coffee" and the burlesque clowning of Bert Lahr...
...display 107 planes, surpassing Chicago's International Aeronautical Show of last December (TIME, Dec. 17). Manhattan conducted a much smaller show in February (TIME, Feb. 18). Pittsburgh's first exhibition a fortnight ago held 23 planes and five gliders, initiated many a sale and agency. Other important air shows this year are scheduled at Indianapolis and Cleveland. The Gardner Annual Trophy Race at St. Louis also functions as a show...
Fields. Speculative is stock in airplane companies; somewhat less speculative is stock in flying fields, since though companies may come and go, the flying field remains always necessary. So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share. The new corporation plans to purchase in fee Roosevelt Field, L.I. (from which Col. Lindbergh made his Paris flight) and adjacent Curtiss Field, to supply hangars for planes and parking space and a restaurant for the general public...