Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promising but inconclusive results.) A thermite bomb was exploded 160 ft. below the surface, at the bottom of a borehole at the south end of the seam. Running northward through the coal for 1,200 ft. were two parallel entries (tapped by additional boreholes every 300 ft.) through which air could be driven under pressure...
...stretch. The underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal properties...
...small and elegant Hotel Aviz, where most globe-trotters halt for a quick refresher, one wall is covered with the exploits of Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan and other great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
...American Airways in a great new adventure which would make the world every man's oyster. And like the old Portuguese captains, who held a last open house on their high-pooped ships before they sailed off, Juan Trippe was also showing off his newest ship of the air. The ship was a great, fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first delivered to any airline. When it flew into Boston last week, it created the biggest stir since Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis landed there in 1927 on its triumphal tour...
...m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...