Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pronounced in every picture he has made. If Lightnin' is any indication, the most racy and witty of U. S. public characters, colyumists, unofficial ambassadors to the world and licensed government jesters, is turning cute. Best shot: Lightnin' telling lies to a stranger he meets in a cabin in the woods...
...flown but "might try it sometime with an old-timer who would not stunt." For stunting he sees no justification, "can't believe that it is as necessary as it is dangerous. If I had my way it would be barred." Suspicious, he would not even enter the cabin of an amphibian at Newark Airport to examine the controls on the ground...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
...nonstop 500 mi. with 40 passengers, 1,000 mi. with 20. In general conformation the 8-40 will resemble the 10-passenger Sikorsky amphibian now in common use. The wingspread, however, will be 114 ft.; the loaded weight, 30,000 lb.; and the 58-ft. hull will have the cabin facilities of a commodious cruiser...
After leaving Pittsburgh's belching chimneys, the going is less rough over the checkered carpet of Ohio farmlands to Port Columbus, big T. A. T. division point. The smiling copilot, uniformed like a naval officer save that his shirt is blue, saunters through the cabin to serve box luncheons, or to invite passengers to step to the door of the pilot's compartment and hear weather reports through a radio headset. The plane passes near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis...