Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...thirsty plane flies in a straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident...
Despite the presence of eight fire engines, detachments of police, and the groups of fireman who swarmed over the ladders with hose in hand, the crowd pressed close upon the building in their enthusiasm, with the result that many overzealous individuals were completely routed when a torrent of water, unleashed from the hose, escaped from a broken window. In another instance, the firemen, taunted with concerted chants of "Let it burn!" and "Damn the firemen", turned the hose and swept the crowd, somewhat dampening the ardor of the surging ranks...
...disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...
...between Los Angeles and San Diego. Every so often the Question Mark took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later...