Word: autogyro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who last winter had to hail a ride in a truck to reach the State House in time to make a speech, bought an autogyro for commuting between his home in Haverford, Philadelphia suburb, and Harrisburg, learned...
...sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
Anyone of the many fathers who witnessed the Yale-Princeton game, Saturday, might have decided that the correct thing to do was to send his son to Harvard. For an autogyro piloted by Leslie B. Cooper, a Princeton graduate, towed a long red advertisement, "Send Your Son to Harvard," over the Bowl before the game. Mr. Cooper, chased to the ground at the airport, refused point-blank to say who was paying for the advertisement. He was working for Roosevelt Field, he said, and the contract for the job was nobody's business. "It's bad enough for a Princeton...
Until last fortnight, Death had come to no man in an autogyro. Then LePere et Cie., French autogyro manufacturers, began experiments with a new type of autogyro, lacking auxiliary wings, movable tail surfaces, ailerons, supporting itself solely by its rotor which could be tilted from side to side or fore-&-aft, then locked in the new position. Test Pilot Pierre Martin took it up at the Villacoublay airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily...
Slightly more than half of the State's 1,497,000 registered Republicans retired sepulchral Senator Samuel Shortridge in favor of 35-year-old Tallant Tubbs. Nominee Tubbs, rich San Francisco rope-maker and State Senator, conducted a 20,000-mile campaign by autogyro. He ardently preached Repeal. His friend is Senator Hiram Johnson, longtime enemy of Herbert Hoover. Nominee Tubbs attributed his victory to his interest in sandlot baseball and "the personal touch." Disinterested observers thought Senator Shortridge, ardent Hooverite, lost because he tried to weasel on Prohibition...