Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brooding over this matter while pawing the typewriter keys. Christmas is upon him--and only ties, handkerchiefs, gloves, and such stuff in prospect. Where are the days when Vag could tingle with the expectation of an electric train? Erector sets--where are they? What has become of the Lightning Glider that used to nestle under the living room tree? They were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that...
Rodman Gilder '40 escaped injury today when a wing of the glider he was piloting struck a tree near the take-off on North Sugarloaf to send the machine careening down the hill...
Ninety per cent of the applicants were undergraduates. D. F. Hornig '40, a gliding enthusiast who constructed and flies his own ship and a National Scholar, ranked in the highest ten applicants. Rodman Gilder, Jr. '40, a member of the Glider Club who was entered in the National Soaring Contest last year, also ranked near the head of the list. The only other undergraduate in the first ten was L. G. Shepard '42, an M.I.T. transfer student...
...sold the pick-up plan to Civil Aeronautics Authority is All-American's socialite president, Richard du Pont, crack airplane and glider pilot. Enthusiastic advocate of air mail for Main Street, he is confident his mail-snagging line will soon have counterparts in every part of the U. S., has cannily offered his pick-up device for sale. If the service proves widely popular the railroads may have something else to worry about...
Sailing in his glider near Detroit, Elmer Zook chose to come down on a lawn rather than a lake. The owner of the place hurried up to rebuke Elmer Zook, instead helped him dismantle his glider, offered to store it in his garage, sent him home by automobile. On the way home Elmer Zook inquired, "Say, who was that guy?" Replied the chauffeur: "Edsel Ford...