Word: autogiros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House (Paramount). Planned a year ago as a parody of Grand Hotel, later rearranged as a starring vehicle for Peggy Hopkins Joyce, this picture emerges finally as a private spree for W. C. Fields. He is a completely demented aviator who, while trying to circumnavigate the globe in an autogiro which contains a small sedan in its fuselage, lands on the roof of a hotel...
...rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally meanders off in his autogiro with Miss Joyce, whom he calls his little buttercup...
...apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September at the National Air Races in Cleveland. Pilot Wilson died of injuries from a collision of his oldtime Curtiss "pusher" with an Autogiro (TIME, Sept...
...observers hope to "shoot" the eclipse from airplanes, among them Dr. Clyde Fisher, president of the Amateur Astronomers Association, near Fryeburg, Me.: Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric at Concord, N. H. John Wells of Southbridge, Mass, will fly over the White Mountains in an autogiro...
Awarded. To Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor of the autogiro: the 1932 Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for promotion of aeronautics...