Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With the opening of the new port here pilots now feel safe...
...regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps because grain growing on their sites had a distinguishably different tint from grain growing on less disturbed soil. In Mesopotamia the soil of filled-in Babylonian irrigation ditches showed a texture different from that of the surrounding soil...
...crew of 16 took their posts, the twelve motors thundered. The enormous flying boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said: "It is going to be a wonderful flying machine." He is looking for a buyer...
...water at Hamburg all seemed well; but suddenly a potent explosion blasted away almost half the launching ways and gear. Fortunately the Europa was two-thirds in the water when the detonation came and she escaped unharmed. Once again, as when the Europa burned, General Director STIMMING, calm, clear mouthed said: "There is no explanation. Deny all insinuations...