Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iniring the spring vacation provided that the condition of their plane is found to be satisfactory, the Harvard Flying Club plans to undertake a flight to Washington, it was learned yesterday...
...small plane, already heavily laden, I could take off but one man, and my orders were to save the one who most needed aid. Nobile was injured and so was one of his men. The latter was too heavy for the plane, but even when that was obvious, Nobile at first refused to leave his men. At last he was persuaded, and we took him off. That is briefly the story. You must decide for yourselves whether or not the General is to be blamed...
After the Gould trio had landed among the icy mountains, pegged down their plane and set up their tent, a fierce wind rose from the north. Their indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from...
Fiercer the wind. At 150 m.p.h. it sounded thin and high.* It sucked at the plane, whirled her backwards for half a mile. The three men, planeless, could only wait wet and miserable for rescue. It came...
...Crocker, a General Electric associate of Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee Owen D. Young; 2) Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these junior tycoons confirmed the fixed belief of Frenchmen that "Americans are all alike...