Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant things will be interested to know that Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, Wis., candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Progressive ticket, is using sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still remains to be done...
...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
...harbor at Juneau is indeed ice-free, but not the shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau...
...morning last week, Pilot Hugh L. Woods of McCracken, Kans. raised a big Douglas transport plane off the airfield at Hong Kong. He had 13 Chinese passengers, including two women, a young child and a baby. Half-hour later, as the liner scudded over swampy Chinese delta lands, eleven Japanese planes came tearing in from the direction of the Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then...
...people, a fourth of the U. S. population, a third of Canada's. To many of these the link meant an international short cut to a neighbor's dooryard; to others, weekends in the bass and muskellunge waters, easier access to a prime vacation land. But to a "whimsical few the route had still another charm. Nearer the U. S. than ever were Ontario's Dionne quintuplets...