Word: anacostia
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...large brick "common jail," on the banks of the Anacostia in Washington must go Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for three months. The U. S. Supreme Count so ruled last week. His crime was contempt of the Senate...
Last week Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo delivered its first 32-passenger flying boat, the Admiral, to the Navy, whose men tried it out at once at Anacostia, D. C., and found it reliable. The event was significant. In the present industrialization of aeronautics two factors have become highly important- private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip...
...been killed; that scores had been badly injured; that the Presidential yacht Mayflower had been blown from her moorings and banged against the dock, but was not injured so badly as the U. S. destroyer Allen, lying near, which lost a funnel; that the Naval Air Station at Anacostia had lost a hangar, suffered damage to eight planes and seen its men blown about and rolled across the flying field...
...refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel and to express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient manner in which they cared for my plane." Undeterred, Mr. Mitchell next issued a blanket charge of naval incompetence in aviation matters. He maintained that...
...start, how Lieutenant W. G. Tomlinson, on a trial flight, wrecked the best U. S. plane, a Curtiss Packard reputed to be capable of going 250 miles an hour. All week the flyers had been tuning up their seaplanes, practising pylon turns against a factory chimney near the Anacostia River...