Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissuade football fans from a policy of hired athletes, there are other arguments that might be mentioned. From a strictly financial standpoint, the attempt to subsidize football is essentially short-sighted. Big-time professional football has been constantly gaining in popularity; if collegiate football descends to the same plane it will soon be finished. There is not reason to believe that university officials could hire better football teams than could professional promoters. As a result of professional team superiority, no one would bother particularly about the so-called intercollegiate games, and gate receipts would collapse...
Last week a stock model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...
...Harvard Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger got out a joint issue. Over the stadium at Soldiers Field a plane wrote in smoke: "H. vs. P. Good friends." After the game, the two squads dined together. Accompanied by such amenities, the first Harvard v. Princeton football game in eight years found Harvard just where it was in 1926, when Princeton's Jake Slagle ran wild and his teammates were accused of using seal rings. A recovered fumble gave Harvard's Fred Moseley a chance to reach Princeton's 49-yd. line in the second quarter. That was the only time Harvard...
...flew unerringly 1,700 mi. over the Pacific towards his first stop?Suva, Fiji Islands. There he was delayed a week by storms ahead. On the 3,200-mi. water jump to Honolulu Kingsford-Smith, fumbling in the cockpit during a rainstorm, accidentally knocked down the wing flaps. The plane whipped into a stall, spun down 8.000 ft. into the swirling blackness before he could bring it out. Unnerved but undiscouraged. the aviators swooped into Pearl Harbor to complete in 25 hours the second leg of the world's most hazardous over-water air course...
...Charles' motor was hardly cold last week before one Tom Catton slapped the plane under attachment, claiming $1,750 and interest for services allegedly rendered at the time of the West-East flight...