Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aeroplane bearing our advertisement most unexpectedly appeared during the ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the Tunnel by Their Majesties the King and Queen. We implicitly believe that every precaution had been taken to prevent such an occurrence. In a letter to the proprietors of the plane we stated: In the first place we desire to make it very clear that we do not wish the plane to be overhead at any time throughout the King's program. But we accept full responsibility for the miscarriage of our plans, resulting in an incident which detracted from a ceremony...
...packages of ballots to Seattle, Portland, San Pedro and a dozen lesser ports, stood by supervising an election of the International Longshoremen's Association on the question of whether the union would agree to let the Board arbitrate the issues of the strike. Then the emissaries posted back by plane carrying the sealed ballot boxes...
...plane roared away Premier Mussolini, longtime patron of the Dollfuss Dictatorship, stepped into his motorcar and sped to Rome. There he issued orders which galvanized the Great Powers (see p. 14), mobilized 140,000 Italian troops to guarantee the independence of Austria, took steps to break with Adolf Hitler...
Mabel Walker Willebrandt hopped out of a night plane at Pittsburgh's airport to ask: "Do you know where the nearest beauty shop...
...insurance against accidental death on the Twentieth Century costs 25? per $5.000 or about the same as on the Royal Scot. For the same New York-Chicago trip on American Airlines' new sleeper plane the rate...