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Word: plane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter will be ended with a compliment regarding the splendid way TIME is handling aviation news generally. . . . WM. VOIGT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

These provide among themselves a manifold sales organization. To them airmen last week felt certain would soon be conjoined three plane manufacturers not yet entirely under Hoyt or Keys control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Insignia of Aviation Country Clubs is a purple plane surrounded by purple initials ACC, superposed on a pair of gold wings. The pin worn on lapel or dress will indicate membership in what present members intend to be the most exclusive social club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Universal. Train (Santa Fe) between Los Angeles and Garden City, Kan., plane between Garden City and Cleveland, train (New York Central) between Cleveland and Manhattan. Time, 60 hours; fare $250. Service began in mid-June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Curtiss-Wright Roc | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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