Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to purchase a plane of its own, the Harvard Flying Club has decided to rent planes, for the use of its members, from the Inter-City Airlines at East Boston, which company has agreed to let the club use its planes at special reduced rates. The planes that will be made available to club-members include: Aeronca, Fleet Trainer, Fairchild Warner 22, Waco Cabin, and possibly Fairchild Cabin...
...membership dues, the club also decided, are to be set at $20 per man. The money collected from dues will eventually be used to buy a plane for the club's own use. Membership cards, which will entitle the owner to the above rates may be obtained from Otho S. A. Sprague '36, Secretary, Adams...
...once it looked as if the Administration meant business. President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...
...aviation enthusiasts were little concerned that a British racing plane had won the world's greatest air race. What pleased them greatly was that in second place was a U. S. transport plane powered by U. S. engines; that not far behind, roaring over Australia, was another U. S. transport plane flown by U. S. Pilot Roscoe Turner. Mrs. Aquilla Derryberry Turner of Corinth, Miss, did not raise her boy Roscoe to be a flyer...
They are known to be extremely devoted. In Hollywood Turner flew a plane of his own in Hell's Angels, became an aviation technical adviser for the cinema. In 1929 he organized Nevada Airlines, operated it successfully for eight months. But the obscurities of ordinary business held no attachment for Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored...