Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens had contributed $30,000 to construct at the naval aircraft factory at Philadelphia a racing plane for him to pilot in last year's Schneider cup races in England. The plane. Mercury II, was 880 Ib. overweight, would not fly. He wanted to take it to England anyway, crack it up at the starting line and thus conceal the naval aircraft factory's "bungling construction." For six years the Navy had hampered his speed experiments. When in February he was ordered to sea duty, he resigned from the service in the belief that only in private aviation could...
...Navy had spent $174,000 on the Mercury. Lieut. Williams, who had a shore assignment for twelve years, had been ordered to sea at his own request, after the Mercury's failure. "Such a romantic proposal" as a deliberate crack-up at the Schneider races was promptly vetoed. Lieut. Williams had been given opportunity to make his experiment a success...
Headed by Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, resigned crack Army pilot (TIME, Feb. 3), the delegation will visit Greece, Turkey, the Balkan countries, Poland. Scandinavian countries and Switzerland...
...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
...order the members of the House to shave. No more would Benton Harbor street car conductors be confused with the motormen by reason of their identical beards (the House of David owns Benton Harbor's trolley lines). No more would the House's famed, crack baseball nine achieve added reputation and profit in its journeys throughout the U. S. from the novelty of long-bearded gentlemen scrambling for flies, sliding for bases...