Word: fokkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most traveled of U. S. publishers is Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun. In his own trimotored Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted...
...show were the most massive ships now plying the transport lines within the U. S. and to Central and South America. Assembled for the first time anywhere were a Fokker F-32, a Consolidated Commodore boat, a Ford 5-AT, a Curtiss Condor, a Savoia-Marchetti S-55 boat, a Sikorsky S-38 amphibian...
Well did Mrs. Hoover know that the voice was that of her son Herbert, radio engineer, describing over a nation-wide hook-up the Army's final air maneuvers above San Francisco from a giant Fokker...
Another cynosure of the show: a new price-list by Fokker (affiliate of General Motors), showing reductions of from $4,000 to $13,000 on every type of plane (except the 32-passenger giant) to meet similar reductions recently announced by Stinson...
...third plane, a Fokker, was wrecked early last year at the Rockefeller Mountains (TIME, April...