Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania went up one soupy morning on a solo flight in a Waco cabin plane belonging to the State, could not find a hole to descend through, finally cracked up on the campus of a school for orphan girls. Results: 1) Colonel Camille Vinet, chief of the State's Aeronautics Bureau, grounded Student Earle for two weeks, 2) Citizen Earle promised to pay his State a $2,000 repair bill, 3) a prominent New Deal Governor very nearly made a sudden exit from the political scene...
...been necessary to abandon the ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
...cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Gökeen (adopted daughter of President Kamâl Atatürk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest...
...horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters to cook, to run modern machinery. Symbolic of the Ford educational program is his carting the old cabin of William Holmes McGuffey, author of the famed readers, log by log to Greenfield, restoring it as a schoolroom with McGuffey furniture, and then supplying the building with indirect lighting and air conditioning...
...those who questioned whether DC-4 could, without radical changes in design, be equipped with a pressurized cabin like Boeing's Stratoliner, Douglas Engineer Arthur E. Raymond had the answer ready: "While it is possible to install a pressurized cabin on the DC-4, now being tested, there is nothing to be gained by doing so. ... All subsequent models will come out with that feature built in. Necessary additions ... do not change either the basic structure of the airplane or its interior arrangement...