Word: gals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 3-A cigaret ad with a gal fishing, for the camera, with a fly rod, also reeling in a fish...
...prize offered by Manhattan Hotelman Raymond Orteig, a young (25) onetime mail pilot left Roosevelt Field in a Ryan monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...
Plymacoupe seats two side-by-side, cruises 100 m.p.h., has a topspeed of 120 m.p.h., lands at 42. Its engine is geared 2-to-1, uses 4 gal. of fuel per hour. It has a standard Plymouth instrument board adapted for airplane use. Following successful test-flights last week, the Department of Commerce promptly ordered a Plymacoupe through Chrysler Motors' Amplex Division, planned more tests...
...night last week Mexican soldiers buzzed over the bed of a dry lake, 7,500 ft. above the sea, smoothed out a homemade runway three miles long, marked it with flags. In the dim glare of automobile headlights and a young moon, a red monoplane was loaded with 470 gal. of gasoline, a batch of letters with "Amelia Earhart" stamps on them, six hard-boiled eggs, four sandwiches, thermos bottles of water, cocoa, tins of tomato juice...
...Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered the 2,410 mi. in 17 hr. 45 min. with a payload of 8,000 letters which cost senders $1.09 each, and still had enough of its 3,000 gal. of gasoline left to fly another 1,000 mi. without difficulty...