Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House's four ladies, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, were among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...
From the House, however, a swarm of Representatives turned up, many with their eager wives and ecstatic children. After three trips, a valve failed in the big Fokker. Lobbyist Lindbergh changed to a Douglass transport plane and for three days continued his practical propagandizing...
...wants to see his old friends and sit quietly with those who have been his pals." Russell Owen in the Times said that he is not through, that he is merely going to stop making public appearances. He will go to San Diego, Calif., to inspect a plane that is being built for him (see p. 28). Perhaps he is pondering another spectacular flight, said Mr. Owen. All this is not very consistent, and the conclusion is that no man, not even Col. Lindbergh, knows what he is going...
...newspapers. He often has black and blue spots on his back, caused by mauling crowds. At first, he had difficulty in getting money for his transatlantic flight. "He even went to the makers of a famous cigaret and asked them to finance the flight to Paris in a plane bearing the name of their cigaret." So said Lieut. Maitland...
Paul Crippen, engineering student at Northwestern University, has one plane he built himself for $800 and a second he bought second-hand...