Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceiling of a plane is the highest altitude it can reach-a light scouting plane, for instance, would have a much higher ceiling than a heavy bombing plane...
...five hours, they had been flying over France, lost in a fog that obscured land and the tips of the America's wings. Once, for a moment, they thought they saw rows of squat bath houses on a beach. Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths...
...write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol Lindbergh, if he had a "ghost," was only doing what many famed persons had before and would do again. As Mr. Schuyler pointed out, every light has his shade...
...machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...
Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...