Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couldn't spare much time, so he took a night Pullman from Chicago to Memphis, chartered a plane there, came on to Monroe, arriving in time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors...
...discussion, although beginning on the relatively high plane of depreciation of currencies developed finally into a give and take argument on why you could buy a steak dinner in Canada for 50 cents when its costs $1.25 here, taking into consideration the fact that the Canadian dollar is worth 99 cents in U. S. money...
Gurgled Actress Dorothy Ward, the "very dear friend" for whom he named his plane: "I am terribly happy . . . proud . . . thrilled...
Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
...wouldn't feel this way if I knew what to expect. . . . Why, I only had one date when I was in high school." Bachelor Guy Bassilli from Cairo, Egypt, did not talk for publication. Cleveland's Guy Baker, less shy, demanded on alighting from his transcontinental plane: "Where's Mae? Why isn't she here to meet me?" Cinemactress West was ill with influenza, recovered sufficiently to receive her guests in her boudoir...