Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later rescued with two other passengers and the pilot, Perry found it was too late for the banquet...
...intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same good-natured detachment. Almost every book shows flashes of inspired writing. Even the pedestrian Lincoln City Guide of Lincoln, Neb. brightens...
...Japanese planes with chattering ma-chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when...
...Hickman still, the hot surface carrying the distillate and the cold condensing surface are in the form of concentric, vertical cylinders. The vacuum is about one-millionth of atmospheric pressure. General Mills joined Eastman Kodak in erecting a pilot plant, which was put into semi-commercial operation a year ago. Its Vitamin A capacity is 60 billion units a week. This output is expected to be trebled by two stills of improved design now under construction...
...Take George Ford," the Bruin's pilot continued. "He had very little experience before he came to Harvard, and he's plenty good now. Of course, he was a natural, but his development speaks well for the coaching over there...