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Word: plane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving to catch a plane for New York, John 6 James Roosevelt, youngest & oldest sons of the President, failed to see the lowered gates and red lanterns at an East Boston railroad crossing. Splintering through the gates, John, at the wheel, swerved just in time to wedge his Plymouth coupe between a speeding train and a gate post. While moppets fought for the horn, headlights, windshield wiper of the wrecked car, Brothers John & James pronounced themselves unhurt. Next day Massachusetts' Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin exonerated Brother John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...members of the student body whose radios are equipped for the reception of five meter impulses can hear these signals being transmitted at 3:45 every morning, the hour of ascent for the Army plane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Instrument at Milton Observatory Broadcasts Weather Conditions From Balloon | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...those prepared to leave a half-hour earlier, an Eastern Steamship liner leaves India Wharf at 5.30 o'clock, on which a special roundtrip fare is also available. John R. Shobe, who has instructed many undergraduates, will personally fly a six-passenger plane to West Point Saturday morning. Lastly, there is frequent low-price bus service, the more or less open road for those driving themselves, and hitchhiking for those with good thumbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reduced Transportation Rates For Students Over Weekend | 10/18/1935 | See Source »

Winthrop House lists its final plane for a dinner dance from six to twelve the same night with the announcements of ushers and patronesses. Adams and Dunster Houses join the Dartmouth on tertainers with the announcement of tea and supper dances, respectively, for the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank McGinley Will Play For Levevett Dinner Dance | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

...business. Prosperous, family-owned, famed for its model employe benefit plans, the company is now headed by the founder's grandson, Herbert Jr., no salesman but a trained chemist who likes technical problems, supervision of new products. Every year he flies in his own plane to Canadian wilds for three months of hunting & fishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wax Hunt | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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