Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel to any European capital and return without having to refuel. It could bring back its five planes, also, for it is so built that planes not only can be launched from it but also land...
...Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew 2,400 miles without seeing land. The greatest over-water distance of the Atlantic flights is the 1,800 miles between Newfoundland and Ireland...
...week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet in diameter and the equivalent of five stories high. Inside will be airtight chambers to contain compressed air, like...
...needs to land, where can one be assured of finding an open field with service facilities...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...