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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he heard about the accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Silver Shield | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stratoliner's Crash | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...crashed in a wooded ravine. From the flattened fuselage, stretched out like a beached and broken whale not far from where her wing and engine lay, workmen took the bodies of three Boeing pilots, the chief test pilot of Transcontinental & Western Air, four Boeing office and shop employes and two Hollanders who had been thinking of buying Stratoliners for Dutch airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stratoliner's Crash | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Queasiness Masked | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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