Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steinberg, a graduate of Boston Latin School, and who studied violin at the New England Conservatory of Music 1932 to 1934, will be accompanied by Leonard Bernstein '39 at the plane...
...tenders, one rescue vessel, one repair ship, four oil-carriers, two storeships, the hospital ship, and three auxiliaries. To San Francisco for the May 28 dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge go the fleet's ten battleships, four aircraft carriers, 14 heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and four plane guard destroyers...
...London Pilot Merrill hotly protested that his trip was no "stunt"' but "a pioneering commercial venture in aviation," and in Manhattan Eastern Air Lines officials pointed out that passengers constantly request to be "put on Dick Merrill's plane." But some professional aviators agreed with Boake Carter, pointing out such facts as that Pilot Merrill relied greatly on a Sperry gyropilot in his jaunt but did not bother to test it or learn fully how it worked before starting...
...featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which appeared in S. E. P. day before the Louisiana Senator was assassinated...
Professor Stowell's Hall has since been blossoming with Brazil's Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha volunteering to send five Brazilians, a Committee for Mexico promising three fellowships, onetime U. S. Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton donating one for Great Britain. Pan American Airways has offered free plane transportation to 20 Latin American students. Last week Promoter Stowell, announcing that the first Hall of Nations fellowship had been awarded to 22-year-old Jan Bazant of Brno, Czechoslovakia, made ready to sail for Europe to put the Hall of Nations over in an even bigger...