Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week immigration inspectors in Los Angeles heard that ten Chinese immigration-law evaders were being smuggled over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches...
...Britain and Japan are expected to convene in Geneva next month for the Naval Disarmament Conference sponsored by President Coolidge (TIME, Feb. 21, March 7, March 21); but last week an event occurred which reminded Europeans sharply how large a portion of the War was fought on land or in the air, and by nations other than the U. S., Britain and Japan...
...since Queen Marie of Rumania crossed the land has there been such a transcontinental spectacle in the U. S. One hundred leather-lunged, semi-nude runners jog out of Los Angeles. Judges, timekeepers, trainers, newspapermen, wives, best girls, small brothers jostle along behind the joggers in an enormous motor cavalcade...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...governments with the recommendation that it replace the present usage (i. e.: "aeroplane" in English, aeronaut in French, luft-schiff in German, arioplano in Italian, etc.). 3) Aerodinas must hereafter keep to the left when following railway tracks, roads, rivers, etc.; and when crossing any of these land highways shall cross over at right angles to the land highway. 4) Aerodinas belonging to the League of Nations will be designated on their wings by the letters "A D N" through which two parallel lines are drawn. Aerodinas thus designated will, it is recommended, be eventually granted permission to cross...