Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passengers will board a train at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Manhattan at 6:05 p. m. Having dined and played and slept and breakfasted, they will step off the train next morning at 8:30 in Columbus, Ohio, where they will be whisked to an airport. Trimotored planes of 14-passenger capacity will be waiting to receive them. Each plane will have two pilots, a steward, light refreshments, room for hand baggage, a luxuriously furnished cabin with ample observation windows. Flying on a schedule calling for 90 m. p. h., occasionally sprinting at 120 m. p. h., the planes...
Fred Harvey, polo player, War aviator, young Harvard graduate, largely responsible for the building of an airport in Kansas City. He is son of Ford F. Harvey, who is president of the firm that runs the Santa Fe dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
...Harvard Flying Club Travelair plane will rise into the air at the Boston Airport this noon at 12 o'clock bound for Hartford, Conn., where, at 2 o'clock, it will compete in the New England Aeronautical Society meet over Brainard Field...
...evening, W. N. Bump '28, W. C. Harris '28, f. P. Sproul '29, and H. H. Timken '30, used the club's plane, turning it up and practicing for the an meet they will enter tomorrow. At 12 o'clock tomorrow, the Club plane will leave the Boston Airport for Brainard Field, Hartford, in time for the New England Aeronautical Society meet, which starts at 2 o'clock...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh hopped off from airport at Williams, Ariz., in his new and unchristened Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...