Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COMEDIENNE BEATEN IN CHICAGO LOOP...
...most experienced and careful pilots, H. De Lay, aerial daredevil, and R. I. Short, President of the Essandee Corporation, were killed at Los Angeles, the wings collapsing in a loop at 2,000 feet. A pin holding the wings to the body of the plane was only three-eighths of an inch in diameter instead of the required three-quarters, and its loosening caused the accident. Previous attempts on De Lay's life, his many enemies in the beach district, and his usually minute care in plane maintenance lead friends to believe that this is the first airplane murder...
...usual flying age did not deter him. He mastered the technical mechanics of the aeroplane and took his tests in cross-country flying, taking off, landing. A few days ago in a de Haviland plane he took and successfully passed the final tests, including all the " acrobatic " maneuvers? loop, roll, tail spin, Immelmann turn, falling-leaf, spin, spiral side slip, forward slip in landing, etc. At a luncheon of the Army and Navy Club in Washington, General Patrick received the silver wings of a flying pilot?the only Major General who had ever attained that distinction...
...city university campus, one of the biggest and finest in the country, is to be constructed for Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Nine acres of ground facing Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, one mile from the Loop, will be converted into $10,000,000 worth of buildings and campus, and will constitute the downtown division of the university. James Gamble Rogers is the architect. He designed the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University...
...confession encouraged the massacres in Armenia, has also been freed of any stigma, in that he was acting under "instructions from the Government". Furthermore it now seems probable that the man who torpedoed the Listerine, and all the other submarine commanders will escape through the same loop-hole--by putting the blame on anonymous higher powers...