Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air...
Puntarenas. On a sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced...
Lindbergh, Again. Col. Lindbergh, who gallivanted down to Mexico City to visit his fiancee, last week, flew to Brownsville, Tex., with air mail and back to Mexico City, the first round trip over the new air mail route...
...head of the air parade that floated in among the clouds over the White House on Inauguration Day was the dirigible Los Angeles and four blimps. When the parade was over the Los Angeles soared back through the murk and storm to Lakehurst, N.J. Of the four blimps, one belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were unable, on account of the weather, to return to their bases at Langley Field, Va., and Lakehurst...
...repeat the historical successes of national battle hymns. It has attracted thousands as though they flocked patriotically to the banner of a rising nation. Now that the Republicans are organizing their backers in what was formerly the Solid South, once the monde of mint julep devotees, this familiar air may become a rallying force for Democratic unity and protect the wets against the threatening storm of prohibition enforcement. Now, in fact, Alfred E. Smith has centered his thoughts in a hurdy-gurdy, the most suitable medium for the rhythmical strains of this party anthem...