Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats in the air...
...Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...
...French have also flown mail for years across the South Atlantic. For the last year the experimental S. S. Carimare has been dawdling in the middle of the ocean collecting weather information; for the first time Air France Transatlantique (combination of Air France and Compagnie Generale Transatlantique) is on the point of sending planes across the North Atlantic. This month and next, the hulking, 40-ton, six-motored Latecoere Lt. de Vaisseau Paris will make half-a-dozen round trips...
Bowling along outside of Nevada, Mo., one night last week, a "Katy" (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) air-conditioned train ran over a skunk, got skunk into its air-conditioning machinery. Passengers were inconvenienced...
Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...