Word: diving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles and Washington, D. C., bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...
...plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which forced the controls automatically to pull his model back...
Were these Greeks smuggled in to dive for the sponge industry? Alert U. S. agents are waiting, watching...
Life is simple in the Venice of the South. It has an average population of 4,000. Nearly half, because few Americans will dive for sponges, are Greeks. Among them the trade is of immemorial antiquity and rich with legends, reaching back to the days when divers with burnished copper bodies gleaming in the sun of the Egean plunged to their deaths in quest of the finest, most deeply hidden sponges for the toilets of haughty Livia, or that Messalina whose luxuriance scandalized even imperial Rome...
Eight ghastly dum-dum wounds sufficed to kill ferocious Alcibiade Bebe in the space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...