Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody in Berlin and no member of the Cabinet had seen Hitler for days. Hopping by plane about Southern Germany he had been haranguing his people, listening to their hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...
...onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after a crash. Last autumn tall, rangy Lieut. Scott came to world fame when he flew to Australia once more, won the MacRobertson Trophy Race and ?20,000. Last week in Paris he was given what everybody expected: the Harmon Trophy as No. 1 airman...
...pilot of the year: American Airlines' Chief Pilot Dean Cullen Smith. Famed among fellow-pilots but virtually unknown to the public, tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark...
...with Laverne, does everything he can to get in the trio's good graces. He hands over his apartment to them, lends them money, tries to get his editor interested in them. In return they cold-shoulder him, rob him when he is drunk. Because Shumann's plane is obsolete, the only way he can place in the money is by cutting risky corners at the pylons. By tricky work, the reporter gets him a dangerously overpowered plane for the third day's race, so that Shumann can win a really valuable prize. On the second turn...