Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The flight was popular because it was so purely an American gesture. Things were done in a big way--ships stationed every hundred miles on the ocean, spare engine parts sent all over the world, and when the fliers got back home, landing fields banked with flowers, and covered with...
"Bakelite." Superficially, it is a composition, born of fire and mys-
tery, having the rigor and brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber
from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of
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From Washington they flew to Dayton, where mechanics worked all night in relays to overhaul the planes. A new engine was installed in Wade's plane, the Boston II. Repaired, they flew on to Chicago, where once more they rested.
The Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story...
Filling the afternoon air with a droning roar, racing speedboats plowed foamy furrows up and down the Niagara River at Buffalo. Chief plowhand was Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold...