Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House the President, clad in blue serge coat and white flannels, went to the D. A. R.'s Constitution Hall to deliver a speech opening his campaign for reelection. Some 4,000 admiring friends sat before him; countless millions listened over the largest political radio hook-up ever attempted (160 stations). When the Widow Roosevelt entered, the audience stood and cheered. She responded with a wide gesture of embrace. The President had a bunch of red roses handed to her. "Simply and Plainly." President Hoover was given a nine-minute ovation by his enthusiastic followers. Thereafter their applause...
Polite but firm were Presidents Harry Arnold and Henry M. Clarke of the New-York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Associations as they proceeded, one day last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said...
...from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze. The plane's propeller was already turning...
...into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear the airship before an upward gust could possibly cause a foul. Then he headed for Lakehurst where another plane waited to fly Admiral Moffett to Washington...
...days earlier the staff of six airplane pilots assigned to the Akron had begun regular duty. Commanded by Lieut. Harrigan they put in a day of "belly-bumping," making 104 take-offs and hook-ons in three hours, more than had been made in three years of experiments. Stationed aboard a lighter-than-air craft, among a lighter-than-air personnel, the "belly-bumpers" are extremely proud of their identity as a heavier-than-air detachment...