Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor, joke-loving, played with his machine. He flew her toward a fence and, just as he might have crashed, pulled her into a stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then...
...officers and directors is enough to show that the financial and business interests of a great part of the Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive...
...Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable of the Woodman that warmed the snake in his bosom...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...
...haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep for the pilot. In commerce similar refueling possibilities might be valuable. Planes could make ground deliveries from the airship, later catching up with her in her flight, bringing up passengers, mail...