Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, famed air traveler, who has comfortably covered 20,000 miles (Europe, Asia, East Indies) in his own plane, returned to the U. S. on the Carinthia in ample time to register so that he may vote for Nominee Smith...
Thus, spoke one day last week M. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aviation, director of the Postal Service. A few minutes later he stepped into an airplane which rose unsteadily to an altitude of 300 feet. Suddenly a sheet of flame shot from the motor. The plane crashed down in flames. Two hours later M. Bokanowski's body was extricated from the twisted steel...
Eastbound: Leave Minneapolis at 8:30 a. m., St. Paul at 8:40 a. m.; arrive Chicago at 12:10 p. m. The first eastbound plane landed at Chicago 40 minutes ahead of schedule...
This Dr. Edwin H. Coward, superintendent of the Atlantic County Hospital, knew last week when he fondly took Bob White, seven months old, to the Atlantic City airport. He put Bob White in a plane. It rose, swooped up and down. Bob White cowered. The plane came to earth. Bob White clambered out of the cockpit. Men chirruped at him; they whistled; they called. And for the first time in his life Bob White heard sounds. Delighted he yelped answers. No congenital deafness was his. More delighted was Dr. Coward. He cherishes Bob White, finely bred grandson of President Coolidge...
This bottled clue, picked up last week on Westport Beach, Aberdeen, Wash., was thought to determine the fate of the plane Miss Doran, carrying Mildred Doran, Michigan schoolmistress and two men, which disappeared last year during a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu (TIME...