Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirt sleeves, Publisher Stern lives in a square colonial house at East Haddonfield, N. J. with his wife, whom he married when she was an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr, and their four children. He smokes long black cigars, drives his car recklessly, plans to commute to Manhattan by plane. His office at the Record has a kitchenette where his butler makes his lunch on busy days...
...Morrow did not need to tell her audience what all the world knew-that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...
...more criticism he heard, the more Director Vidal chuckled. Some of his answers: Maybe the wording of the questionnaire was hasty but the principles were sound. . . . Even an $850 plane would be a triumph. . . . Sales costs are too high anyway; the lists of prospects gathered by the questionnaire should make selling easy. . . . Planes can be, must be cheaper, and if the aviation industry snubs the idea let it beware of the automobile industry which may snatch...
...small, cheap (perhaps $700) airplane for mass consumption (TIME, Nov. 20). (Substantial rumor: PWA funds to design and develop the plane...
...number of Juniors who will go by train is 48, by auto 21, by plane 3, by boat 3, by bicycle 0, and by hitch-hiking 0. The number of Seniors who will go by train is 39, by auto 23, by plane 8, by boat 5, by bicycle 0, by hitch-hiking 0. The total number who will go by train is 186, by auto 78, by plane 22, by boat 9, by hitch-hiking 3, and by bicycling 2. This makes the per cent. of the total who will go by train 62, the per cent. by auto...