Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more trouble. Flying a sick boy from Point Barrow to Anchorage, Alaska, he landed at St. Johns, picked up some men who had been marooned there three weeks. When he reached Anchorage, carrying eleven passengers, a dog and 200 gal. of gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked his license, ordered his plane grounded. Incensed, Dorbandt climbed back into the plane, shouted: "You will never see me again!" Taking off with 2½-hr. fuel supply, he headed east into the fog over Prince William Sound. His friends, recalling the airplane...
Navy's No. 2. Airmen attached to Navy aircraft carriers do not always come home to roost. Fortnight ago Ensign James Hiram Kelsey Jr. of the U. S. S. Lexington was lost when his plane fell into the sea during maneuvres. Last week Lieut. John Scott Graff of the U. S. S. Saratoga crashed in the Atlantic 24 mi. off Virginia, quickly disappeared with his plane. Luckier was his companion, Chief Radioman R. K. Kelly, who fought his way clear, was picked up by destroyers...
...clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find out if his newly organized celeri (speedy) divisions are really as efficient as they appear on paper or if the mass of electrically controlled machine guns, trucks, tanks, microphone plane finders and other gadgets with which they are equipped are too complicated for simple Italian soldiers to operate...
...with lightning speed to outsmart his enemies and rivals. Day & night last week a special telephone wire was constantly kept open between the Chancellor's headquarters and the home of the dying President. In the afternoon, when death by dawn seemed certain, Chancellor Hitler left Berlin by plane and arrived at Neudeck with his personal photographer. Only strenuous remonstrance by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg prevented the taking of deathbed flashlight pictures of Nazi Hitler by the side of Hero Hindenburg. Sinking fast, Old Paul barely recognized Herr Hitler to whom his last words were "Ach, Herr Reichskanzler...
Success came in 1912 when his seventh plane won the Petrograd Military Competition prize of 30,000 rubles. Shortly afterward a fuel-line, clogged by a dead mosquito, nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only...