Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Kahn writes with the authority of 2,700 hours flight, including considerable test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
Cured. On the theory that shock sometimes relieves deafness, one D. Allen Dittman of Waynesburg, Pa. went aloft over Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, last week with Pilot Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel...
Last January U. S. officials in Washington predicted that the current unemployment crisis would be over in March. Early in March, when no perceptible industrial pickup occurred, President Hoover scrutinized statistics, forecast that the "worst" would be over in "60 days" (i. e., the first week...
...year record for sheltering men, women and children at the Municipal Lodging House was broken. Employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard hit rock bottom when the U. S. laid off 1,156 skilled workmen, one-third of the yard's force. Meanwhile businessmen waited for the predicted industrial pickup...