Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Associate Editor Myron Weiss of TIME, President Grover C. Loening of Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. Assistant Secretary Warner promised the Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association the co-operation of the National Aeronautic Association. Associate Editor Weiss described TIME'S flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities...
...convert college men to Christianity and a better interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration of the part religion can play in the complex life of the undergraduate." With this in mind, eminent divines have wrestled moderately...
Another protective device fixed in most planes nowadays is a broad canvas belt to be strapped across the passenger's lap. It keeps him from being tossed out of an open plane and, in case of crash, from being hurled the length of the cabin. When necessary he can unfasten the belt in less than one second...
...town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...
...Clarence Marshall Young, director of aeronautics, U. S. Department of Commerce, returned from Europe last week where he has been flying his own plane while inspecting European air services. France's late Minister of Commerce and Aeronautics, Maurice Bokanowski, was killed last year while flying...