Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosion on the U. S. S. Whitney killed seven men. Ten Marines were slain in Nicaragua. In plane accidents 26 Navy, 13 Marine flyers died. Other Navy fatalities: drowned, 72; suicides, 35; murdered, 5; drugged, 12. Bad food made 129 sick, killed none...
...Battle Plane Prejudice. To the desk of Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson...
...earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...Fuller '30 of the Harvard Flying Club, piloted the club plane in the third cross country flight of the fall from Boston to South Dartmouth, outside New Bedford. Fuller carried one passenger and made the trip of 125 miles in 80 minutes...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...